IS THE USE OF MAKEUP A SIN?

IS THE USE OF MAKEUP A SIN?

The use of makeup whether  we believe it or not is not only a worldwide custom but indeed one that has become a socially acceptable normal especially more recently than we may imagine or think. Therefore, to even question the use of it will seem old-fashioned or out of place to countless no of women and, of course, men who have grown accustomed to and comfortable with its widespread use. But what exactly is the truth about makeup? Today most women, even to little girls wear it, yet majority are oblivious of its history some of which I'll try to present now as i believe it may help us with some background clues we need along with some of the bibles position on this.

Having said that, allow me clear one wrong notion about that attitude of some of us towards the Old Testament, I want us to realize the bible's position on the use of it, as I shall be drawing inferences from it for the purpose of my submission. Now scripture itself (Apostle Paul) said that most Old Testament (OT) accounts were actually recorded for us today,

“Now these things [OT accounts] were OUR EXAMPLES, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted…Now all these happened unto them for examples

[RSV says “as a warning”]: and they are written for OUR ADMONITION...” (I Cor. 10:6, 11).

Haven said that; what TRUTH exactly do we need to know about makeup? What are the facts that can help us here?

Without any argument, there are some things that we all naturally agree as wrong or as a sin without being able to refer to a single verse of scripture that specifically addresses that subject, this is for those who always say; "where is it expressly written in the bible", and if u manage to find one or two in the OT, they say where is it in the NT. Now, smoking and drug consumption are a few examples, we know smoking is a sin but not one scripture points anywhere to it.

Likewise, although makeup can be referenced in the bible, there is not one “Thus saith the Lord, it is a sin" on this subject in the bible. There are, however, important spiritual principles that can be considered in ascertaining whether it is or not.

Before we look at scriptures, I'll like us to see the worlds opinion on this subject. What exactly is the meaning of the word mascara. Believe me, if we can simply just accept the worlds word (definition) for what it is, then it becomes easy for us to move on as what u are about to discover, is its own honest statement (testimony) from the cosmetics industry themselves.

The word mascara comes from the word; MASK & from where the word MASQUERADE is also derived from.

In essence, to wear mascara is to wear a mask or to masquerade as something that one is not—for the purpose of vanity and perceived beauty.

Even the word cosmetics also has a revealing origin. It comes from the Greek word kosmos, which means “OF THIS WORLD; WORLDLY.”

The idea here is that for women to be accepted in society or by the world, they must literally masquerade. Talking about acceptance, I'll again use the world's record (Encyclopaedia) for my submission,

My choice for using the Encyclopaedia Britannica on this subject is because those who wrote it are not selling cosmetics, hence, their profits and livelihood are not at stake if they tell the truth about why people purchase makeup. In any case, since their reputation for being an authority on what they write is at stake, they cannot afford to be less than honest, neither can we be d worse believing it.

Now the Encyclopedia Americana, Vol. 18, 1956 Edit., p. 157) has this to say;

In the last two decades, we have seen make-up progress from its early category of woman’s conceit to become an art and an integral part of feminine beauty and psychology.

Chief credit for this widespread use of cosmetics goes to the motion picture industry, which set new standards of beauty and…brought new products and principles of application and use to the world’s women”

At the turn of the twentieth century, makeup was viewed as something only prostitutes, proud and arrogant women wore. With the invention of movies and television, Hollywood injected into the limelight the image of a movie starlet’s face covered with cosmetics. Once this image was accepted by the masses, cosmetics became commonplace.

The movie industry has been most responsible for associating makeup with exquisite beauty, by presenting Hollywood actresses as sex goddesses. It became natural that young girls and women would wish to be as attractive and desirable as world-famous screen idols.

Hundreds of millions of adoring fans want to look like their favourite movie stars. Even little girls can become obsessed with being pretty, when they should be enjoying childhood and playing with dolls and toys. They can easily become slaves to fashion trends that are inseparable from using makeup.

But it was only after World War II that the cosmetics industry began promoting, through advertising, the concept of flawless beauty. Relatively quickly, this thinking took hold around the world, with women and girls becoming enamored with the idea that they could be more attractive.

Vanity—the desire to look more beautiful—is what causes women to paint their faces, and is perhaps the most powerful of human drives.

Still from the Encyclopedia;

The Pull of Vanity

Psalm 39:5-6 states, “…verily [truly] every man at his best state is altogether VANITY…Surely every man walks in a VAIN SHOW [an image].” Vanity is a powerful force in all human beings, and it is far stronger than most understand. Each person must have a healthy respect for the pull of vanity at work within him. Be honest with yourself, and admit that this tendency is within you.

Pride and vanity are why the Encyclopedia Britannica defines “cosmetics” as “…products nobody needs—but wanting them is human nature. Today, the desire to look better, smell better, and thus feel better causes consumers worldwide—mostly women—to spend an estimated $65 billion annually on personal enhancement—cosmetics” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2001).

Statistics as at 2001, reported that “An estimated 1,282 tubes of lipstick and 2,055 jars of skin care products are sold every minute” (“Beauty in the mind and wallet of beholder, “Minnesota Daily Online, March 7, 2001).

Everyone wants to look or be considered pretty or even beautiful. The pull of vanity begins early in life. Modern society places enormous emphasis on beauty. As a result, recent studies demonstrate that even very little girls are unhappy with themselves to the point of depression, with many actually contemplating suicide as a result! They feel that they do not measure up to their peers or favorite movie stars. 

Today, the obsession with being beautiful has led nearly 10 million adolescent and teenage girls into eating disorders. With the market already grossing 65 billion dollars a year and rising, a well-known chain store announced that it has “recently decided to expand its…line of low-priced cosmetics for teenagers and teens children in the 8- to 14-year old age group” (“Rouge to Riches,” by Catherine Valenti, abcnews.com, June 25, 2001).

The widely publicized death of a six-year-old “beauty queen” demonstrates there is a growing culture obsessed with beauty in very young girls. The American Society of Plastic Surgery reports that over 1.3 million people had cosmetic surgery in the year 2000, and 1.2 million were women. A 1999 Gallup poll revealed that 72% of people say that they are pleased with their appearance, yet the amount of cosmetics sold, as well as the growing numbers turning to cosmetic surgery in the United States, is skyrocketing. It is even reported that younger and younger girls who enter beauty contests are also having cosmetic surgery to attempt to win and to improve upon how God made them. Astounding!

The obsession with looking young, and turning back the clock, has now gone beyond outrageous. Consider this: 1.6 million women, even some men, are now injecting tiny amounts of a deadly poison, Botox (from botulism), under the skin of the face to remove wrinkles. Within four days, the toxin in the treatment literally paralyzes the facial muscles and temporarily smoothes the skin. (The treatments only last for 90 days.) The goal is to “look the best you can for as long as you can”—for $150 to $1000 per treatment!

However, so many actresses are now using it that movie directors are complaining that they can no longer produce normal facial expressions. While they may look younger, most also look frozen and artificial.

In describing this new trend, one beautician said, “It is as though we have given up on AUTHENTICITY.” Another expert cut to the heart of why women wear makeup or want all their wrinkles removed: “The wisdom that a person’s character can be etched on his face, or [the] observation that at twenty you have the face nature gave you and at fifty you have the face you merit, may no longer apply.”

Botox is only the beginning of the threat from various harmful chemicals and toxins that are latent in cosmetics. This has long been understood!

THE HISTORY OF MAKE UP

Before continuing, lets ask another very key questions. What is d history of makeup? Where and when did it originate? What purpose did it serve in ancient times? The answers to these questions will again, shock you!

ANCIENT ROOTS

The ancient roots of makeup offer the first great insight into why it is used today. The following quotes demonstrate its early use. “The use of cosmetics is very ancient. Evidence of the use of eye makeup and aromatic ointments has been found in Egyptian tombs dating to 3500 BC…

“By the 1st century AD the Egyptian, Roman, Greek and Middle Eastern cultures had developed cosmetics such as powders to whiten the skin; kohl to darken the eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows; rouge for the cheeks…” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 5, p. 196).

Egyptian tombs represent the earliest recorded references to the use of makeup. But the Egyptians were by no means the only culture to use it. Many others followed suit. Here are some specifics:

“During the Presynaptic period [ending in 3200 B.C.], men as well as women applied a line of green paint around the eyes…In dynastic times the colour of paint used was a dark grey. Red ochre seems to have been used to colour the cheeks and henna the palms, nails, and, in the late period at least, the hair.

“Assyrians resorted to black dye for eyebrows, hair, and beard, whereas the Persians used henna, which produced an orange-red colour, a style that existed from 1900 BC. Gold dust, gold thread, and scented yellow starch were sometimes used in the hair and beard for festive occasions…” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 5, 1979 Edit., pp. 1017-1018).

Plainly, the use of makeup started nationally in Egypt. The Bible uses Egypt as a type of the sins of this world, which Christians are commanded to come out of.

Even before its use in Egypt, the original painted harlot was Semiramis, the mother-wife of Nimrod, the great grand son of Noah and the founder of the Babylonian Mystery Religion and from whom d idolatry Christmas and Easter worship evolved.

                                     SEMIRAMIS

Semiramis is known as the mother of all harlots. She used makeup, as well as suggestive whorish clothing, for various religious and sexual rituals. The following quote describes the kind of seductive, sensual clothing that she—and later the Egyptians—wore: “Modern knowledge of ancient Egyptian dress derives for the most part from ancient paintings and sculpture, since very few garments have been preserved…The earliest representations of women show them either nude or clad in tightly fitting white linen skirts down to the ankles” (Ibid., pp. 1016-1017).

Along with various statues, paintings and busts still in existence from ancient times, descriptions show how Egyptians used cosmetics and revealing clothing to appeal to their sensuality. They adopted this dress into their culture from Semiramis, in an attempt to appear more like the many gods and goddesses they worshiped.

Since the artwork described here also employed the use of makeup, it is no wonder that 100 years ago it was generally understood and said that “only bad women wear makeup.” It is the same attitude of alluring through suggestion and sensuality that links near nudity and use of makeup. Both demonstrate a departure from modesty and virtue.

We read that the use of cosmetics spread from culture to culture.

The Columbia Encyclopedia adds more about how each civilization adopted its own methods of applying and producing cosmetics. The following shows how the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian and Greek cultures all took their lead from Egypt. Notice: “preparations [were] externally applied to change or enhance the beauty of skin, hair, nails, lips, and eyes. The use of body paint for ornamental and religious purposes has been common…The Egyptians used kohl to darken their eyes; a crude paint was used on the face, and fingers were often dyed with henna…Beauty aides reached a peak in imperial Rome—especially chalk for the face and a rouge…” (Sixth Edit., 2001). The emphasis has always been on beauty—and desiring (PURSUIT OF) beauty has everything to do with pride and vanity.

Many women who used cosmetics in these cultures also took their lead from Semiramis and adopted the use of cosmetics for the purpose of harlotry. History shows how women applied makeup to change their appearance and seduce men. Harlots and “matrons” (the female leaders of prostitution rings) were specifically recognized by their silk, jewels and cosmetics.

Did you know the first women to wear makeup were prostitutes! Changing one’s appearance by facial paint is a custom ancient PROSTITUTES have dictated to the modern age. Cosmetics were nothing more than a device used by harlots to, in effect, teach men to break the Seventh Commandment. This is the message of history—yet the whole world lies in ignorance of these facts!

More recently, makeup first became common in the red-light districts of New York, Amsterdam, Paris and other large cities. Today it is found in nearly every supermarket and corner drugstore. The problem is that everyone wants to fit in, be liked and accepted by the majority. No one naturally wants to stick out, unless it is also designed to get attention—however perverse. You should expect others to think you are strange, extreme, and radical. They will tell you that you are being unbalanced. But they speak from the viewpoint of people, not God.

BIBLE POSITION ON MAKEUP

Now that the history of cosmetics has been established, let’s look deeper into what d bible says about it? How does God feel about the use of makeup? Is facial paint mentioned in God’s Word?

We shall examine our subject from four (4) Old Testament (OT) scriptures as they establish the basic framework for understanding God’s view of facial cosmetics.

Jer. 4:30

And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

The book of Jeremiah 4:1-30 shows the conditions of God's people ancient Israel at the end of the age among the nations. The setting is God inspiring Jeremiah with a vision of the DESTRUCTION coming on these modern nations. National sins and “abominations”—things despised by God—are soon to bring a terrible punishment. God is even now offering these people a final chance to repent and return to Him.

Jeremiah continues, “Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart [these are very serious matters to God]…For My people is foolish, they have not known Me; they are sottish [drunken, stupid] children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge” (vs. 18, 22).

God’s indictment reaches a climax in Jeremiah’s vision. The modern nations of Israel have, like a harlot, sought “lovers” (political allies) who turn on her: “And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you clothed yourself with crimson…” Jeremiah describes how modern Israel has fallen into the conduct of a whore among the nations, hence God's anger in chapter 4, verse 30: “though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you rented your face with painting, in vain shall you make yourself fair [beautiful]; your LOVERS will despise you, they will seek your life.”

Ancient Israel always sought to be like the nations around her. Instead of being an example to them, Israel wanted acceptance from them! In the same vein, Christian women today are no different. Not wearing makeup would make them stand out, but people want to fit in and be accepted. Please examine yourself and recognize this natural desire at work in your mind!

Take Jeremiah 4:30 for exactly what it means. Do not add to or subtract from it. It is plain! The context is God condemning His people for abominations within their national conduct—their national behaviour. One of the abominations that d church has learnt from d world and that God says he hates is d obsession with painting the face—thereby taking on the nature of d world's standard for measuring beauty as opposed to biblical standard of beauty as prescribed by scripture.

1Pet. 3:3-4

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

The whole point in verse 30 is that painting the eyes is a common worldly method and therapy for beauty which we have unconsciously imbibed even as God's kids, and any honest person, truly seeking to please God and find His will, would admit as much!

If you doubt me, why is it that upon first removing your makeup, you will look & even feel strange to yourself, and this feeling does not easily disappear, myself and my wife tried it out sometime when we were confronted as to whether she could do without makeup or not. We needed to prove first to ourselves that we could and believe me, initially, we thought it was no big deal, but after some days, even though it was my wife and not I who actually took it off, I sincerely began to feel awkward and out of place, I couldn't believe what grip artificial beauty already had on me, when alone I begin to wonder why it was making me feel out of place, this angered me so much that, I questioned myself, "so if my wife doesn't wear a makeup, will I die"? At this point we decided, it will be like this, going forward and believe me, we are yet to fully recover from the grip of not wearing makeup. Worse still are the numerous explanations we had to start making to those around us. 

Upon citing my wife they asked, "Are you sick"? "Is everything ok"? Just because you stopped wearing makeup? It became obvious it is not my wife who is sick but our world is that is so sick of artificial beauty.

You have no clue how bound you are as well as the sense of relief you are being robbed of by your need for makeup until you break free, only then will you discover all the time and money you will save, especially dose who wear human or Brazilian hair, this is no more fashion, but “living in pure bondage”.

Our generation is gradually becoming vague, our women are clearly crossing the lines, nothing seems to be clear anymore; artificial nails, artificial hair, (Brazilian, Peruvian, Italian, Indian, even Human), artificial eyelash, artificial eyes (Eye contact lens), artificial teeth, artificial face, artificial toes, artificial hip, artificial waist, artificial breast, artificial walk (Cat walking), please someone tell me, what is left that can be said to be real. Can these be said to be God? It's about time we stop deceiving ourselves.

Ephesians 2:3 states,

 “Among whom also we all had our conversation [conduct] in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”

Like any prostitute, often still dressed in red, and certainly operating in a “red light district,” modern Israel has painted her face with makeup. National captivity and a terrible time of punishment will be God’s remedy for His people and all who follow these practices—its time we begin to wash and clean up our faces!

Women of today may think they just want to “look nice” to the world, when in reality they look otherwise to God.

Lets hear how Encyclopaedia Britannica concludes this argument;

Vanity—the desire to look more beautiful—is what causes women to paint their faces, and is perhaps the most powerful of human drives. (Not from me but the Encyclopedia)

The Pull of Vanity

Psalm 39:5-6 states, “…verily [truly] every man at his best state is altogether VANITY… Surely every man walks in a VAIN SHOW.”

Vanity is a powerful force in all human beings, and it is far stronger than most understand. Each person must have a healthy respect for the pull of vanity at work within him. All we need is be honest with ourselves, and admit that this tendency is within us.

Pride and vanity are why the Encyclopaedia Britannica defines “cosmetics” as

"Products nobody needs—but wanting them is human nature.

Today, the desire to look better, smell better, and thus feel better causes consumers worldwide, mostly women to spend an estimated $65 billion annually on personal enhancement cosmetics”

(Encyclopedia Britannica, 2001)

Ezekiel 23:40

And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, PAINTEDST THY EYES, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

The second scripture to be examined comes from Ezekiel. Much of the book parallels Jeremiah. God reinforces what He said there. The prophet Ezekiel records the same kinds of national sins and conditions as Jeremiah.

The context is of two harlot sisters. Samaria and Jerusalem. God directly likens Israel and Judah (seeking allies among the nations) to harlots who have sent for men after painting their faces—exactly like whores awaiting their next customers. Again, we have here a clear, unmistakable association of the use of eye makeup with harlotry and whoredom. God next issues a sentence, just like a modern court, to all who have committed spiritual crimes (sins) in His sight.

‘This therefore is the Lord the ETERNAL’S SENTENCE: Bring a host of folk against them, and hand them over to be maltreated and robbed! Let them be stoned and put to the sword…that ALL WOMEN MAY TAKE WARNING and avoid YOUR sensual ways…and so learn that I am the Lord the ETERNAL!’”

Women of the modern world—take warning! Be careful that you don’t conclude that you are an exception to the consequences foretold in this prophecy. God connects eye paint directly to seduction for harlotrous purposes.

II Kings 9:30

And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.

Our submission on makeup would be incomplete without examining one of the most evil women in the Old Testament—Jezebel—and her use of cosmetics.

Jezebel married King Ahab, and is infamous for doing abominable things in God’s sight. Eventually, God decided to wipe out Ahab and his entire house. A young prophet explained that Jezebel would die a horrible death, eaten by dogs. This struck fear in Jezebel and she took action to save herself.

Notice what she did: “And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she PAINTED HER FACE, and tired her head, and she looked out at a window”. Jezebel put on makeup to try to seduce Jehu and escape impending death.

Keil & Delitzsch Commentary of the Old Testament:

“When Jehu came to Jezreel and Jezebel heard of it, ‘she put her eyes into lead polish (i.e., painted them with it), and beautified her head and placed herself at the window’…It is prepared from antimony ore… which when pounded yields a black powder with a metallic brilliancy, which was laid upon the eyebrows and eyelashes…the object was to heighten the splendour of the dark southern eye, and give it… a more deeply glowing fire, and to impart a youthful appearance to the whole of the eyelashes even in extreme old age.”

Nonetheless, Jehu went to Jezreel and executed her. Her makeup failed to seduce him and her abominations came to an end when Jehu had her thrown from a window. The dogs did, in fact, eat her flesh as God had declared!

A Warning to God’s Church

Jezebel is mentioned in the New Testament as part of a specific warning to God’s Church: “Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffer that woman JEZEBEL, which calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce My servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols” (Rev. 2:20).

The great false church of this world (recall the Great Whore of Revelation 17:5, with her harlot daughters) has continually sought to get into God’s Church, depicted in Revelation 12 as a very different woman, wearing a “crown of twelve stars.” Jezebel’s whoredoms were so wicked that she is used by God as a type of this great universal church. Just as Jezebel tried to seduce Jehu in Old Testament Israel through the use of facial paint, the Great Whore has continually sought to deceive the world and even seduce many of God’s New Testament servants by changing her appearance, cloaking her doctrines with “paint” and masquerading as God’s Church.

History shows that she has been able to successfully repeat her whoredoms upon so many of those of God’s Church. Her powers of seduction have not diminished over time! She and her false doctrines, beginning with women using makeup, successfully crept into the true Church of God at the end of the age.

Through the seductive use of makeup, the Great Whore (Rev. 17:1) and Jezebel both masquerade for the purpose of fornication. But there is an additional horrifying parallel of what happens to this Woman (and all those who follow her doctrines) and what happened to Jezebel. Both come to the same end, dying in the same terrible way.

Rev. 17:16 

states that the beast, which the Whore rides, will eventually turn and “eat” her, just as the dogs ate Jezebel. Following and applying these three scriptures, in pursuit of Bible principles, we can safely draw a conclusion or get a clear picture of d exact and original purpose and use of makeup.

Think carefully, lets consider those who wore makeup: the false prophetess Jezebel, two whoring sisters, Aholah and Aholibah, and the adulteress Judah are the only Bible examples of women (real or by analogy) who wore makeup!

Now think of the most well-known,righteous women of the Bible. Name a single one (Old or New Testament) who wore makeup. There is no mention of Sarah, Rebecca, Ruth, Naomi, Mary (Christ’s mother), Deborah, Abigail, Esther or any other virtuous woman ever applying or wearing makeup. The fact that the only examples of those who wore makeup are adulteresses, harlots and false prophetesses serves as a great warning to anyone who cares about the Word of God and wishes to follow the Bible’s righteous examples instead of the wicked.

Let’s now consider other important principles.

Imperfect or Incomplete Creation?

Ad agencies are paid based on their ability to sell products. Their goal is to get you, the consumer, to buy whatever it is they are being paid to promote. The most successful agencies find and repeat a slogan over and over, of course, the best slogans can greatly increase sales!

The most creative that I have heard is one that honestly represents cosmetics for exactly what they are. It originated from a cosmetics manufacturer:

“We’re selling hope in a jar, dreams in a bottle.”

Another slogan for a widely used cosmetics company tells women that its products will help “you look like you, only better.” Can one look like herself, only not like herself? Another states that you can be “at your most beautiful” if you use their products.

These are all effective marketing ploys, because each appeals to the exact same drive within all human beings—the desire to be and feel pretty, attractive, beautiful—VANITY.

Makeup appeals to both the sense of sight and vanity. Women wear cosmetics because they feel this makes them look more attractive. By this feeling of increased beauty, their vanity swells. This is exactly what happened to Satan!

I have known many who sought to get around God’s will. Like Satan, they rebel. This write up  will not—cannot—help them. Some are determined to “lean…unto their own understanding” (Prov. 3:5). They fulfill the Proverbs that “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes” (21:2) and “All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes” (16:2). 

They cannot be told to do anything, and this article will have no positive effect on their thinking.

What Is Sin?

Many are confused on whether using makeup is a sin. Although every Bible example refers to women who used it as prostitutes, many still seek proof whether makeup is sinful.

David wrote, “I hate every false way” (Ps. 119:104). Obviously, deceiving—by altering one’s appearance through makeup—is a “false way.” Do you hate EVERY false way—or just the ones that feel wrong?

David offers fascinating insight about the connection between God’s Law and vanity, he said, “Turn away mine eyes from beholding VANITY” (Ps. 119:37), and “Remove far from me VANITY and LIES” (Prov. 30:8). Wearing makeup is a form of deceit—and all deceit, in one way or another, is a lie.

Ask yourself, do women wear makeup to show love toward neighbor? NO! Do they wear it to please God? NO! They do it to focus on and please themselves.

"Beauty Is Within"

I Pet. 3:1-4

God is concerned with character—spiritual adornment! He is not interested in physical gold or jewels. God is far more interested in the beauty of your heart than your clothes. If your character is pure and attractive, then you are properly attired in God’s sight!

This kind of beauty is good enough for God! IS IT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?

Makeup is for SELF. It is done to make SELF “get” more beauty, “get” more attention—and “get” more looks from others. These are all based upon the “lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life.” They are done for purely SELFISH reasons.

God’s way strives to GIVE, not GET!

James 1:22-24 state, “But be you DOERS of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.”

Imagine looking at your reflection in the mirror. Upon observation, you discover dirt on your face. Would you attempt to clean or wipe your face with the mirror? Of course not. Likewise, God’s Law, by itself, and without Christ’s blood, will not remove sin.

God’s Law is His spiritual mirror. By looking into it, we see our errors and faults—the dirt on our faces. Now, unless we go and remove the dirt and thoroughly wash it away, the mirror has not helped us. Also, would the dirt disappear just by looking into the mirror? Of course not! The mirror only provides a way to examine the face.

Here is the point. God’s law is intended to help you wash your face—not paint your face. If you will honestly look into God’s mirror, it will help you see the paint—and other sin—that should be REMOVED, rather than APPLIED!

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