0171. Rebekah Was Very Fair

Rebekah Was Very Fair

"And the damsel was very fair to look upon" (Gen_24:16).

All will admit, immediately, that the beauty which Rebekah possessed was not the beauty of her attire. Girls of today, too often imagine that their everything depends on clothes. Unless some of these "butterflies" are dressed in the latest fashion, a veritable vogue fashion sheet, they think that they are hideous.

When will Christian girls learn that God’s daughters should not seek that outward adorning of "plaiting of the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;" but that her chief adorning should be "the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price"?

It was after this manner that Rebekah and the other holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands.

The girl needs not dress with a severity that would at once mark her as an oddity, but she certainly should dress in all modesty and simplicity, so that those who meet her will not be attracted by what she has on, but by the gracious beauty of her character, as seen in her face.

The chief concern of every young woman should be the decoration of "the hidden man of the heart," that which is incorruptible, and of great value with God.

The Holy Spirit bears witness: "In like manner the women, in becoming attire, with modesty and soberness of mind; * * with good works, which becometh women undertaking the worship of God."

The King’s daughter should be all glorious within.

F. B. Meyer beautifully says, concerning our younger women; "In all the world there is nothing fairer than the young life, which God hath given you. You can enrich the poorest home; lighten the hardest lot; cheer the roughest path, and make weary feet forget the sharp flints."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR