Haha, I sound so manipulative!

Proverbs 27:19

"As water reflects the face,
so one's heart reflects the heart."



Imagine, for everything that you ate, you had to stick the exact same to your body! (This isn't that strange a question, my mother used to wonder how hard it would be if you took apart an iceberg lettuce and then attempted to put it back together again...we bought her a jigsaw that year for Christmas!)

Most women may feel like this is exactly what happens. Imagine, that for every doughnut you ate, you had to stick another to your hips; that for every hot fudge sundae you consumed, you'd have to stick another to your back. I know we all love that back fat! (I know some exercise for that, don't do them, but I know them, LOL!)

I think it does happen, just in a different way... I found this Proverbs verse a couple of months ago; it was good to hear. When I was a wean, my mammie would tell me this story when she caught me doing something naughty. She would tell me that my heart was like a garden, and so I had to fill it with as many good plants so that no weeds could grow. If I was to leave it unattended, or put rubbish in it, I would lose control of it. I use this story all the time, it may be cheesy, but it makes sense.

As Christians, we spend our lives trying to be like Christ. We sing songs about wanting our hearts to be like the heart of Christ, we commit to getting closer to the heart of Christ, getting to know more about His heart, and here, we see that that doesn't happen without a HUGE benefit to us. I've noticed some of the kids I am around getting more and more beautiful. In their usual, fear-of-accepting-a-compliment-in-case-someone-thinks-I-am-big-headed manner, they blow it off. I really think that there is something to it. I've yet to meet a women who loves the Lord, heart and soul, who is not beautiful. I'm not talking cat walk, I'm talking gentle, humble, sincere, sensitive, all adding to the beauty of a person. I like this verse; if I'm wrong, and have totally misunderstood it, and there is some deeper meaning that the one that I am drawing, feel free to correct me. I just like it, I like that my obedience can show in areas that I have no control of; that God can bless my obedience to Him in ways that I couldn't pay the best cosmetic surgeon; ha ha, but then He is the Great Physician! What could be more beautiful than a face that reflects the heart of Christ... how hot would that person be?