Aim to be Lovely (Slide 1) 1 Peter 3: 3-4; 1 Samuel 16: 4-7 Introduction: There was an old saying that goes, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This common saying means beauty doesn 't exist on its own, but is created by observers. And when we talk about observer, commonly, we refer to the society. The society defines, what is beautiful! It is the society who decides, what standard by which every person is judged. And most often, the society determines beauty according to appearance, what is on the outside. Let us observe what images do people usually see when they face in front of the mirror. (Slides 2- 5) These images are not self-created, but were defined and characterized by the society who controls and dictates how and what the world should be and not be. That’s the primary reason why people are so engrossed and overwhelmed by vanity, trying their very best to …show more content…
Robert Fox experienced with and advised to a young girl who wants to seek approval from the society on the way she looks. Listen to what this young girl is saying: “I look in the mirror and I see a fat ugly blob, without form or anything” “They all have these different definitions of ‘pretty’, and I can’t ever fit all of those categories” Rev. Robert Fox elaborated. Is she fat” Is she ugly? No! She seems to despair that she can’t fit all of the different definitions of “pretty”. Doesn’t this sound as if she is waiting for other people to tell her whether she is worthy to be called “Beautiful”? She is allowing society to judge her. And she admits that society has so many different definitions that she can’t possibly live up to them. She is stressed out and depressed. Why can’t she see herself? Because she has no internal self-image – no convictions of her own about whether or not she is pretty. She doesn’t know who she is and is waiting for society to tell her. Without someone to tell her who she is, she is a formless, shapeless