At our Erev Shabbat service (Friday night after sunset) we read Proverbs 31. One verse that is always striking to me as I read it is:
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth YHWH, she shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 KJV)
Why should this catch my attention every time? Perhaps because I live in a culture that teaches just the opposite. While it is not a part of my own family and personal culture, still I see that culture (and the effects of it) all around me every day.
Our culture tends to stretch life miles wide while living only surface deep. Ironically, many end up “drowning” in that approach to life, unable to get up out of it and breathe. Here is an instance where YHWH threw someone a life line:
I am an admirer, perhaps even an “afficianado,” of the beauty found in creation and in all its various forms and expressions. But this worshipping of beauty is a masterstroke of haSatan. By it he uses the work of Yah to destroy the work of Yah in many. As followers of the Way, and people of Torah, we must learn to cultivate an eye for beauty from Yah’s perspective. And that begins with what is inside.
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