Captivating a 6-Day Study to Restoring Your Feminine Heart by Stasi EldredgeSample

Day 5

Beauty to Unveil

Beauty is a hard subject for women to talk about. Our desire for beauty has caused us countless tears and untold pain. The world’s view of beauty is unattainable for the majority of women . . . and yet we long for it.

The Bible teaches that every woman is made in the image of God. Every woman bears his image in her heart and carries within her the very essence of Beauty. Apart from God, beauty gets twisted, used, and abused. And being beautiful on the outside isn’t the most important thing about you.

Okay. Take a moment and let this sink in. You have a beauty all your own. You bear God’s image and you are beautiful. Inside. And out. It is true. 

This isn’t about dresses and makeup. This isn’t about the perfect figure or the flawless skin. This is about mercy, strength, vulnerability. For now, don’t you recognize that a woman yearns to be seen and to be thought of as captivating? We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil. 

The desire to be beautiful is an ageless longing. God has set eternity in our hearts. The longing to be beautiful is set there as well. 

A beautiful woman is a woman whose heart is alive.