Discover, 15 Verses on Self-Worth and True Beauty

As one hits the age of forty years wise, you may have to fight through magazine covers of twenty-somethings that are clad in bikinis and bare mid-drifts, football games with pom-pom holding models, and insta-beauty girls across social media screaming, “We’re young, we’re pretty, we’re what you’re not!”

Yes, yes, I know, skinny, bikinis, and insta-anything doesn’t define beauty.  We are, by definition, perfection if we are indeed made in the image of God. Our flaws are only temporary and our aging bodies all have the stories that the young do not. There is nothing to compare. Then why do we do so?

I think it’s time that those of us who struggle with self-worth issues and with the thoughts of mid-life knocking on our doors to discover the meaning of true beauty and what defines our worth.

God’s Word is full of truth, love and what really counts. Social circles, online or in person, do not define us on any level unless we allow them to.

Here we discover 15 truths from the Bible to help us not only build up our own self-esteems, but to show that it’s not us that deserves the glory, all glory be to God, our Strong Creator.  And remember, what He saw was very good. He is good, all the time.

 

 

2 Corinthians 4:16 NIV   Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV   Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come

Ephesians 2:10 NIV   For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

1 John 3:1 ESV   See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Matthew 6:26 ESV  Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

1 Peter 2:9 ESV  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Philippians 4:8 NIV   Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Proverbs 3:15 ESV   She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV   Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Psalm 34:5 ESV   Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.

Psalm 46:5  God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

Psalm 139:14 ESV   I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Romans 5:8 ESV  …but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV   You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV  …for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.