THE PURPOSE OF BEAUTY

"TAKE ME WITH YOU; come, let’s run! THE KING HAS BROUGHT ME INTO HIS BEDROOM. How happy we are for you, O king. WE PRAISE YOUR LOVE EVEN MORE THAN WINE. How right they are to adore you."
Song of Solomon 1:4 (NLT)

• God has a purpose for all He had made.

• God ordained a man and a woman to live together, as husband and wife in a marriage union (Genesis 2:18,24,25; Matthew 19:6).
• You are to be satisfied with your spouse. God ordained sex to be within the context or setting of marriage union, between a husband and the wife (Proverbs 5:15-20).
• Sex has been made cheap and crude, people get involved in it, like that of animals (Ezekiel 16:29; 1 Corinthians 6:13,18).
• Do not trade your birthright because of the mundane—the material things: "LEST THERE BE ANY FORNICATOR OR PROFANE [godless] PERSON LIKE ESAU, WHO FOR ONE MORSEL OF FOOD SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT" (Hebrews 12:16 NKJV).

3 GOD'S WILL IS FOR YOU TO BE HOLY, SO STAY AWAY FROM ALL SEXUAL SIN.
4 THEN EACH OF YOU WILL CONTROL HIS OWN BODY AND LIVE IN HOLINESS AND HONOUR—
5 NOT in LUSTFUL PASSION like the PAGANS who DO NOT KNOW GOD and HIS WAYS."
1 Thessalonians 4:3–5 (NLT)

• Some bachelorette go about trading their bodies because of money. They adorned themselves to be attracted to men.

• Your body is God's temple that should not be defiled. If you did, you had defiled the temple of the living God, and there are serious consequences for that (1 Corinthians 3:16,17; 6:18-20).
• A Curse is on those who adorned themselves for the purpose of trading their bodies, prostitution; because they are defiling the body that should be God's abode (1 Corinthians 3:16,17; 6:29,20).
• In the book of Isaiah, God pronounced Judgement on the daughters of Zion, because of pride, outward adornments of their bodies, and prostitution (Isaiah 3:16-24).
• Adornment might not be bad outrightly, If it was moderately done and with good intentions or motives: "AND I WANT WOMEN TO BE MODEST IN THEIR APPEARANCE. THEY SHOULD WEAR DECENT and APPROPRIATE CLOTHING and NOT DRAW ATTENTION TO THEMSELVES BY THE WAY THEY FIX THEIR HAIR or BY WEARING GOLD or PEARLS or EXPENSIVE CLOTHES" (1 Timothy 2:9 NLT).

3 DON'T BE CONCERNED about the OUTWARD BEAUTY OF FANCY HAIRSTYLES, EXPENSIVE JEWELRY, or BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES.
4 YOU SHOULD CLOTHES YOURSELVES INSTEAD with the BEAUTY that COMES FROM WITHIN, the UNFADING BEAUTY OF A GENTLE and QUIET SPIRIT, WHICH IS SO PRECIOUS TO GOD."
1 Peter 3:3,4 (NLT)

• The salvation of your soul is important than whatever, money or the ephemeral, that would be gotten through the Acts of prostitution (Mark 8:36).
• If you claimed to be born-again, and you engaged in the illicit affairs, casual sex, you are trading your salvation which cost Jesus Christ His life (1 Peter 1:17-19).
• It means you are rubbishing what He, Jesus Christ, did for you (Hebrews 10:26,27,29). Remember, you are bought with a price, and redeemed not with corruptible or perishable things, but the precious blood of Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 1:18,19).
• If you considered yourself beautiful, shapely figured, and you are being thronged by men, Does that mean you should be fooling around with them? And not when you even claimed to be a believer in Christ Jesus. Should a believer in Christ do what you are doing?

• The Book of Song of Songs, or Solomon, describes the love that ought to exist between a husband and the wife.

• Sex before a marriage union, or outside a marriage union, is wrong; And it is contrary to God's purpose of establishing or instituting a marriage union: "MARRIAGE IS HONOURABLE AMONG ALL, AND THE BED UNDEFILED; BUT FORNICATORS AND ADULTERERS GOD WILL JUDGE (Hebrews 13:4 NKJV).
• When God's principles are violated, or lived against, by a believer who is expected to know better; It brings a curse or God's Judgement on the person.
• And in a marriage union, If God's order is changed, how He specified things to be done in a marriage union, then problems are permitted to set in.
• God is a match Maker. He is the only one who can bring you in contact with the right person whom you are to settle down with in a marriage union.
• Some bachelorettes are just giving their bodies to men because they are desperate in having a marriage partner. - Some men, who are not godly, or those who have the form of godliness but denied its power, take an advantage of such ladies, that should be called Christian sisters, because of their desperation and gullibility (2 Timothy 3:5,6; Titus 1:16).
• These men use such ladies, who professed to be sisters in Christ, and sleep with them to gratify and satisfy their lusts, and dump them:
  5 HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENYING ITS POWER. AND FROM SUCH PEOPLE TURN AWAY! 6 FOR OF THIS SORT ARE THOSE WHO CREEP INTO HOUSEHOLDS and MAKE CAPTIVES OF GULLIBLE WOMEN LOADED DOWN WITH SINS, LED AWAY BY VARIOUS LUSTS" (2 Timothy 3:5,6 NKJV).
• Marriage is ordained by God, and He is the only One Who can help you in locating the right person to settle down with, who can stand with you in fulfilling God's purpose and plan for your life.

• Desperation and anxiety are products of Unbelief or faithlessness. And Unbelief or faithlessness displeases God, only faith and trust in His Word please Him (Hebrews 11:6).

• The beauty which God gave to you, which men commended, and attracted them to you; is for the glorification of God's name, and not for prostitution.
• Thus, let the name of God be glorified through the way you live your life. Let Him not regret or sorrow over your life (Genesis 6:5,6).
• In some cases, It is almost sisters proposing brothers, even in the church, today; all because of desperation. They use all manner of gimmicks to woo brothers.
• Note: God is Great and Greater than the greatest. No one can be compared with Him. He knows who would be the best person, partner, for your life, in your journey on earth, and as par the assignment He has for you.
• As a believer, sisters in particular; Wait on God to lead you, and do not through a gimmick corner a man with your own sensual wisdom: your crafty heart and enticing speeches (Proverbs 7:10,21).
• Know that a way that seems right might be a way of death or destruction: "THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT TO A MAN, BUT ITS END IS THE WAY OF DEATH" (Proverbs 14:12 NKJV)
  READ: Proverbs 16:25

5 TRUST in the LORD with all YOUR HEART, And LEAN NOT on your OWN UNDERSTANDING;
6 IN all your ways ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS."
Proverbs 3:5,6 (NKJV)

• You will not regret in Jesus' name.

• Should there be any ailment in your body, I declare your healing now in Jesus' name.
• Whatever is contrary to your health is rebuked and rooted up in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
  Peace!

STEPS TO SALVATION
• Take notice of this:
IF you are yet to take the step of salvation, that is, yet to be born-again, do it now, tomorrow might be too late (2 Corinthians 6:1,2; Hebrews 3:7,8,15).
a. Acknowledge that you are a sinner and confess your Sins (1 John 1:9); And ask Jesus Christ to come into your life (Revelation 3:20).
b. Confess that you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, and that you confess it with your mouth, Thus, you accept Him As your Lord and Saviour (Romans 10:9,10).
c. Ask that He will write your name in the Book of Life (Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:8).

• If you took the steps As highlighted above, It means you are saved—born-again. Join a Word based church in your area and Town or city, and be part of whatever they are doing there. Peace!