THISIS A FUN AND BEAUTIFUL ANALOGY! It pertains to comparing sanctification with lipstick! What a unique thought! Must be a Holy Spirit led comparison…

It is!

Selah.

You know, (actually, may not) I used to have crooked from teeth… The two main front top ones were the guilty ones. Growing up as I did, having a tumultuous childhood, my mother never got me braces (my dad was an invalid, mentally and physically.) We had a lot of welfare money because of my dad’s afflictions. I felt ugly, unattractive and unworthy to have girlfriends who were pretty…

NOTE: what a lie from the enemy of all or our souls!
Selah.

As I became a young, working, single woman, I did finally start wearing lip gloss and light makeup. I just dealt with the fact that my teeth were crooked and needed braces. When I was out on my own, I didn’t even try to find out how to get braces: I had a poverty attitude, believing I was very, very happy to just have my own apartment!

I took the bus to work, depended on friends for rides for get-togethers. I was thankful to get out of my parents’ home. Choosing to be happing in making a much better lifestyle was my main goal in my young, independent and single life. Looking for a man, a husband was right up there too!

Over the years, like every person on the planet, I’ve had challenges (very severe) and joys (very joyful!) I finally got braces when I was pregnant with my fourth child. I had come to the conclusion long ago that my teeth couldn’t be as ugly as I believed they were, because guys were asking me out! More than one! I was so thankful!

Basically, up to the point of falling in love, I felt unworthy for most everything. Unworthy to be asked out. Unworthy to have cute friends. Unworthy to be in any kind of authority. If you have already read some of my more personal articles, you         can easily see I’ve come a long way!

 

NOTE: for those of you who are struggling with self-esteem, (that would be confidence in yourself through your God-given abilities) not conceit, God is more than able to prove to you your worth, giftings and promises of a wonderful life!

 

Moving right along, sometime in my single adult life I as started wearing makeup I felt somewhat pretty. Beloved: you see how Satan attacks, attempting to destroy me! Slaughter me! I’m telling you: it was hard! Besides being painfully shy, never knowing what to say, feeling inferior to almost every schoolmate I knew, every pretty young woman; I felt boring and weak! Thank God I stopped listening to the enemy of my soul now and forever!

I am more than a conqueror through Christ who strengthens me and I do know my value — and I know yours!

Come with me and be sanctified if you’re not!

NOW: what does this all have to do with lipstick? It really is an amazing comparison. Think with me. My prayer is this: every time you make yourself up for the day, whether it’s lipstick, mascara, blush or any other thing, remember how God is molding you, sanctifying you more and more! Certainly, all women have been made in the image and the likeness of God! Hopefully, you have not only acknowledged Him as your Creator; you have also asked Him to be your only Lord, Savior, God, Comforter.

If you have, if you are a child God, born from above: and
this, my sister, is what sanctification has in common with lipstick!

Selah.

A new woman in Christ starts off not knowing nearly as much as she will when she studies the Word of God and continues to choose to grow in knowledge of her Father in Heaven, her Lord and Savior, her Comforter. A Christian woman grows at her chosen speed, by her own free will and as she learns, grows – she will, without any doubt, see more and more of the glory and goodness of God Almighty!

LIPSTICK IS LIKE SANCTIFICATION:
My experiences with lipsticks are varied… First of all, color is very important to me and like people, there is a good and pleasing variety. God created everything and He did a remarkable job (Of course!) on colors…

When I choose a new lipstick brand it might be smoother than other brands, gliding on easily, pleasing me. Some lipsticks are too dry for me, or too moist. My age could very well have something to do with it. And when I buy a lipstick that is wonderful for me, it is not only a good color for me, but the texture must be very pleasing. The difference that alone makes is significant indeed.

Over the years, like probably all of your makeup wearing women, I have come to stay with certain colors and brands. And one of my greatest ‘tricks’ is to keep it if I don’t like it so that the stores are not out of money and I don’t have to take time to return it – and in this order. I’m nice! What I will do, is wear the lipstick after a bath, just to keep my lips moist. Sooner or later, that unwanted lipstick will be gone at no loss to the store and do ugly lips for me. Sisters in Christ want good businesses (that would exclude those in business to: murder the unborn, sell drugs and pornography) to prosper. We bless them when we buy their products without taking advantage.

Selah.

So as I enjoy my beautiful lipsticks I remember that I am sanctified and want to continue to grow more and more for love and service to God and man,

 

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY:

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

1 Corinthians 6:9-11
 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.  And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.