What makes you stunning, my pricey?
What’s in your coronary heart? Why are you right here?
Is it your eyes, your ears, your nostril,
The face that your reflection exhibits?
Or what about your favourite sneakers?
Your fashionable garments in lots of hues?
Is magnificence based mostly on what you see?
Or who you’re turning out to be?
It’s enjoyable to put on your sneakers and garments,
To color your fingers and your toes,
To play with make-up, do your hair,
To like what’s beautiful and to care
About your seems, the way you seem—
However these items is not going to final, my pricey.
Whenever you develop outdated with hair turned grey,
Your outer self will fade away.
So magnificence’s greater than what you see,
For seems will change and youth will flee.
However what concerning the belongings you do,
The items and work God’s given you?
Is magnificence present in being nice,
In what you’re in a position to create?
It’s good to attempt to be your finest,
To study and develop, to make a quest
To understand all that lies inside
And use the items that God’s inbuilt.
However—is magnificence based mostly on what you do?
Or what the Lord has completed in you?
And what about your many pals,
Those on whom you’ll be able to rely?
Does magnificence come from human love?
Or from the guts of God above?
It’s fantastic to be desired,
Appreciated, and admired,
To know you’re valued, cherished, and prized
As being “somebody” of their eyes.
However human love and fleeting reward
Is not going to examine to infinite days
Of God’s rejoicing and his smile.
(All else will solely final some time.)
What makes you stunning, my pricey,
Just isn’t your eyes, your ears, your nostril,
The face that your reflection exhibits.
It’s not concerning the belongings you do,
The items and work God’s given you,
The dangers you are taking, the buddies you make,
Or magnificence for pure magnificence’s sake.
It’s not what folks say or do—
However what God says is true of you.
For God says magnificence is the artwork
Of loving him with all of your coronary heart.
He says that figuring out him means extra
Than all of the information you possibly can retailer,
And all of the locations you possibly can go,
And all of the folks you possibly can know,
And all the gorgeous, beautiful issues
That you possibly can put on, like diamond rings
And classy garments with all of the frills—
For figuring out Christ is healthier nonetheless.
What makes you stunning, my pricey,
Is that your God is whom you concern,
The one you observe all of your days,
The one you like and belief and reward.
For he’s the one who says, “You’re mine,”
Who made you from his good design,
Who is aware of your ideas and all of your deeds,
Your longings, sins, and all of your wants.
He is aware of what makes you actually you!
He died and rose to make you new.
And whenever you provide him your coronary heart,
Your God begins his murals.
He makes your coronary heart his house and throne—
A beautiful place to name his personal.
