The Beauty of Jesus

"Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me,
All His wonderful passion and purity;
O Thou Spirit divine,
May I truly be Thine
Till the beauty of Jesus be seen in me."

I have never heard this song before, but as I flipped through the hymnbook one Sunday, the words jumped off the page at me.

What does beauty look like to you? As a young woman, society and culture pushes their idea of beauty on me from every side. When I was a little girl, my mother would remind me that true beauty comes from within. I never truly understood that till I grew up.

It doesn't matter if your hair is perfect all the time. Or your make-up for that matter. Without Jesus, your beauty is only skin-deep. I would rather have a soul made beautiful by Jesus than the most fashionable outfit.

Beauty is fleeting. You won't be beautiful forever. But if you have a soul made beautiful by God, you will still be beautiful when you grow old. I want to be one of those ladies who grows more beautiful as they grow older because they have Jesus.

"Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me,
All His wonderful passion and purity."

I want Jesus to be radiating through me, so that when people look at me, they see the beauty of Jesus.