Thoughts on Physical Appearance/ Scriptures to Help - Search for Truth Part2

before I post my second part of my search for truth article, I want to preface that my beliefs and my faith are the foundations for what I decide is truth and not truth. It makes sense if you think about it ;) So if you do not share my faith, you probably will not agree 100% with what I have to say. But you may learn something interesting about the topic at any rate. Thanks for reading!

Below are some things I have meditated on and prayed on and I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter...

• some scripture:
  

  Romans 1:24-25 ESV : "they exchanged the truth for a lie." We will be tempted and lied to about our image and bodies; through lust and through feeling less. There is a great deceiver. He maligns God's character and beguiles with lust. In our world, we are too focused on the creature rather than the Creator. If we were just as obsessed with God as we are with what our society says is "beautiful," we would be more apt to see the true beauty God presents to us everyday through the "unexpected things" (the things our society says isn't particularly what we should see as desirable). Why not start adjusting our eyes to the kingdom now? it is coming anyway, and all the rest will disappear. Physical youth and beauty fade. People eventually age and die. God's sight will be the one that stays

  "Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen."-romans 1:24-25 verse

  Psalm 16:8 ESV / 

  "I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken." We set our sights on Him and what He thinks, and we are not shaken

  1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 

  "But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”": we have to look to God for our self image. because the definition of beauty varies and changes from age to age and culture to culture anyway

  1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV 

  "Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious." --do we really care what is precious to God in comparison to what is precious to the world?
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  1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV 
  

  "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."---we are not even ours to consider. why should we let the world or the forces that try to tear us down consider how we look or how we are on top of that? It is for God to consider us and tell us what He thinks. And he made us and our bodies to glorify Him in our own individual ways

  Proverbs 31:30 ESV

  "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."---according to this scripture, what do you think is most precious to God?

  Psalm 139:13-16 ESV 

  "For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them." ---How did God make us? "WONDERFULLY!" was any part of our bodies or personalities hidden from God when He made us and knew how we would grow to be? NO! We have to stop thinking that we are somehow "defected." There is not possibility of that. we were "woven in the depths of the earth." Have you ever been there? no. only God. Only He knows the full purposes of how He created us. But we can appreciate that.
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  Genesis 1:27 ESV
  

  "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." God created us in his image. He is a father who loves us. There are remnants of Him created in us. Can we open our eyes and see it? there is a saying... "it's too good to be true." well my lovely freind, sometimes, "it is too good, it has to be true."--(my new philosophy)

  Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV 

  He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

  Ephesians 2:10 ESV 

  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

  Psalm 139:14 ESV

  "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well."

  Psalm 45:11 ESV 

  "And the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him."= The King desires your beauty. Before He made you, He knew how you would look. He desired to make you before you were made.