IN THE SPIRIT OF SPRING.

CONCLUSION

 

By Isaiah-Phillips Akintola

THE ART OF BEAUTY IS A SPIRITUAL MINISTRY!

 

Ecclesiastics 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart…

The art of beauty is a multi-billion industry today, and this is good and recommended to assist those who need this industry the most. But the fact remains, many who have patronized this important, lucrative industry are realizing that they are still very much unsatisfied and unfulfilled, and this is not because the beauticians are failing in their art of practice.

 

On the contrary, the beauty industry has greatly improved in the last few decades with the help of new discoveries and advanced technology in the field. So, why are people still not getting satisfied with the way they look? Well, simply put, beauty is primarily about how one feels on the inside, and not really how you look as much as that also is important. One can look very lovely and attractive to others, and still feel very dirty, dysfunctional, and disconnected from the reality of life, and this is the case with many, unfortunately.

 

Secondly, these wealthy, high-class individuals are hoping that beauticians will help them carry out a surgical adjustment only God, the creator of all things visible and invisible can carry out without a single surgery on a human face or their body as the case may be. The fact is, there’s no beauty studio, well equipped enough to reconfigure [beautify your inner life] you in a manner that will give the kind of self-confidence in the quality of presentation that you’re searching.

 

The way you often are a clear reflection or indication of how you feel or think on the inside. One’s feeling or want or need speaks to us of how we see life and respond. Often, when our soul is crying out for something, we need to firstly probe the source of such a need before we jump into a goose chase. If we refuse to examine the cause of a need, we may end of only responding to something we thought we desperately need only to realize that it’s not what we need.

 

When we are not confident in who we are and allow that identity to mature in a manner that becomes our emblem of recognition, we can easily be charmed and seduced by what we see in others to the point of wanting to become like them. The search for something or people to add beauty [self-confidence or approval] into our lives is a taboo. We only get to see and honestly appreciate the beauty of others and things around us to the degree of our inner, spiritual awareness and reconfiguration.

A person that is yet to be spiritually awakened cannot see nor value his or her own beauty, nor will such a person be able to offer beauty to others. Beautify is of the Lord, and everything God does and represent to us is a deep reflection of his eternal nature which is glorious. The scripture above relates beauty to the state of one’s eternity.

 

Beauty lies within your spirit; beauty is an integral part of your spiritual makeup, and when you allow yourself to be known and truly reborn by your creator, not only will your true beauty be restored to you, but you’ll also see others in their true state of beauty.

 

The first thing that happens to man in the garden after the fall was the loss of the sense of beauty. Adam tried everything to cover his lack of sense of beauty and insecurity, but unfortunately, he will need to repeat the process again and again. Beauty is far beyond how we see ourselves and life; beauty is a manifest, presence of God that gives us confidence, courage, and standing to be what he wants us to be.

Every plant and flower stand in their own order of class and beauty without trying to be something else. When you look at the plants and flowers in the fields what do you see and how do you see yourself through the unspoken messages they declare?

Life is a mystery arranged in beauty, but you’ll have to look beyond face value to see the inner beauty of God in everything within and around you. I continually stand in amazement how God has hidden the most valuable treasure in common things to be picked and discarded like a flower.

The other day I was looking at the arrangements, structure, color, and character nature of each flower I’ve been able to snap in the picture. Could it be that we are today missing something critical message heaven is speaking to us in regard to our restoration just for the fact that they seem to be hidden in some so-called mundane places or things? There’s a fundamental question we need to ask ourselves in this season where presentation and look have almost shortchanged the essence of life and its values.

 

This is a day of beauty, but this beauty is not going to happen because of your facial look, or physical construct and expression; this beauty is going to be manifest through the inherent, character values of regeneration of our spiritual state before the Lord and creation.