Beauty
DOESN’T FADE
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came across a tweet recently that said, “Beauty doesn’t fade. Hotness fades. And frankly, we would all be a lot better off if it didn’t exist.” “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is Do you agree with that? What is the difference between fleeting; but a woman who fears the beauty and hotness? The musician John Mayer says, “If you’re hot, Lord is to be praised.” —P rov. 31:30 you’re hot; but the only way to be beautiful is to be loving. Otherwise, it’s just ‘congratulations’ about your face.” When I was in high school there was a website called Hot or Not. It was a place that ranked your level of attraction on a scale from one to 10. I am ashamed to say my friends and I participated; we laughed at the “ugly” profiles and lusted over the “hot” ones. I was participating in something profane — laughing or lusting, all over the shallowness of looks. This wasn’t about searching for beauty; it was AUTHOR Kevin McGill about idolizing “hotness.” True beauty can never be found in this way. I agree with Hellen Keller when she said, “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.” But the heart can be deceitful — “above all things” (Jer.17:9). Our culture is saturated with messages that equate beauty to
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good looks. Human worth is rated on a “hotness” scale from one to 10. But a culture that glorifies looks in this way isn’t celebrating beauty; it’s participating in something sinister and ugly. I have a memory from my childhood of a horrible game played occasionally at recess. It was like tag except, when we tagged someone, we would say the name of this particular classmate we found unattractive and yell, “You
