Open Heavens Devotional by Pastor E.A. Adeboye
Memorise: Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a
woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. Proverbs 31:30
Read: Ezekiel 16:14-15
The expectations of believers sometimes fail because they
are based on the wrong foundation. Expectations that are presumptuous would
most likely fail. So also would expectations based on physical qualities such
as an individual’s good looks, stature or charm. If your expectation for a
husband or a good home is based on your beauty, it may be dashed. There are
many ladies who are not beautiful but they are married to good husbands and
there are many pretty ladies who earlier thought marriage would be easiest
thing for them; in fact, they became so choosy that today they have aged, but
are without husbands. If you think beauty or handsomeness will give you a good
home, you should have a rethink. Take a man like Absalom. As a man he was
described as being beautiful. His kind of beauty was the type that would make
any pretty lady green with envy. Apart from Lucifer, Absalom was another
personality described as being perfect in beauty. Most ladies would fight to
have him as a husband. But at the end they would have regretted that decision.
Imagine what he did? He murdered his half-brother who raped
his sister, he spearheaded a powerful rebellion against his father and toppled
him, he openly slept with his father’s concubines and he planned to kill his
father but for God’s intervention. At the end he died prematurely! His wife
became a widow too soon. His three sons and one daughter became fatherless.
They lived with the evil tag of being the children of a rebel who died
shamefully (2 Samuel 14:25-27). If you think you are too beautiful or too
handsome to marry the fellow God has chosen for you as your life partner, make
no mistake, you will end up marrying the Absaloms and Jezebels of this world.
Today, many pretty ladies are in tears over the deception of beauty. Some men
are equally languishing in regret in the confines of their homes because
instead of going to the Match Maker and creator, they failed to pray
effectively. They believed their physical attractiveness would pull sisters to
them, and they would find a good wife from among them. Any partner you get from
God is the best you can ever have, no matter how imperfect the fellow is. Go to
the Lord today!
PRAYER POINT:
Father, in any way I have trusted in my looks and physique,
have mercy on me. Father today, I put all my trust in you.
Bible in one year: Joshua 1-3
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