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Worth Woman

  The greater part of your attractiveness, the part that draws or attracts other
people to you is on the inside, not on your flesh.

Have you ever seen a woman walking on the arm of a man and you asked yourself,
'How on earth did she get him?' Did you think, "If she got somebody, surely
Lord, You can do that for me!"

  One day a woman flew across the nation to meet with me. She wanted to tell me
her story, how her husband had left her for another woman and was tied up in an
affair. The woman who came to see me was young, vibrant, beautiful, she met all
the standards of what we would call a clean-living, godly woman. She sat weeping
in my office and then
in her frustration as she told me what had happened, she opened up her
pocketbook and pulled out a photograph and said to me, "Just look at her!"  I
didn't want to look...I didn't need to look in order to understand what was
happening.  She insisted. "Just look at her! He left me for that!"

  I said, "The tragedy, ma'am, is that what you have been trained by our society
to think what is important, really isn't all that important. Appearance doesn't
mean all that you think it does. Outer appearance isn't always the issue." If
you don't believe that, I encourage you to go to the nearest mall and sit for a
while and watch the people go by. You'll see some of the strangest couples
holding hands!

  Our society spends billions of dollars a year to persuade you to buy hundreds,
even thousands of dollars a year worth of clothes and makeup in order to fix up
something that doesn't really matter all that much. We spend countless hours at
beauty salons and spas and malls in order to buy, acquire, or create the very
things that we think will draw other people to us, but which actually have very
little drawing power.

  What you create or design on the outside of yourself may turn a head or two,
but it has very little power to turn a mind or a heart. We are bombarded on a
daily basis with messages that tell us that if we only go to the right weight-loss center and get down to
the right size and dye
  our hair the right shade and go to the right spa and use the right toothpaste
and put on the right makeup and wear the right outfit at the right time and  be
seen in the right places with the right people; then we most certainly will be
able to get for ourselves the right man and  have the right children and live in
the right neighborhood and enjoy the right kind of life!

  When we do this and nothing 'right' happens for us, we are puzzled. We sit
back and  ask, "What went wrong?"

What went wrong was this:  We became merchandise for those who were selling us
merchandise!

The average woman, yes, even the average Christian woman will spend literally
thousands of dollars this year on hats and nails and tints and weaves and
earrings and dresses sadly, spend virtually nothing to build up and support
those inner qualities and character traits that truly are what attract others to
us. If you are only concerned with your outer appearance, you are going to be a very shallow,
superficial person.
People are going to find that once they have quit playing with you, the box in
which you came was beautifully wrapped...but it was empty.

  Now, I believe in women looking good. If you were to ask my wife about this,
she would tell you that I spare no expense in helping her look good. I want her
to look as good as she can look.  Not only do I appreciate looking at her, but
like the way people look at us when we
  are out together. When she's looking good, she makes me look better than I
otherwise look!

  Most men know this, by the way. They know they look better to other people
when they are seen in public with a woman who has a great-looking outer
appearance. What most women don't know about most men, however, is that outer
looks don't matter nearly as much as
  inner qualities once that man is home alone with his wife. I did not marry my
wife for her good looks. I married her for her self. Her self included far more than her good looks.

  Go back to the SOURCE of what it is that makes you "attract" other people -
the Source of your attractiveness is the Holy Spirit of God. He is the One who
woos and wins the heart.  When you are His woman, He will draw to you the right
people for the right purposes at just the right time!  Trust God today to be the
wellspring of your attractiveness.

  Author Unknown. 

         For the Christian, prayer is not an option but an opportunity.
     " In prayer; expect setbacks, but refuse retreat." Richard Eastman
            &nb sp;      Do your best, bring out the best in others,
            &nb sp;     Don't tell the Lord how big the problem is,
            &nb sp;       tell the problem how Great the Lord is!