El Roi Sees You.

& you don't have to be perfect for Him to love you.

In your weakest moments; when you are sick, a mess, all the times when you are broken, God is willing to help you. God knows we are but mere flesh, He is compassionate and forgives us of our iniquity (Psalms 78:38-39, 1 John 1:9). God knows our sinful likeliness yet He sees through all of it and sees His daughter/son.

God does not look at our outward appearance but our heart (1 Samuel 16:7). When you feel too weak to put on makeup or a smile on your face, when you can't find the strength to go outside or do another day, you can surrender to God's love and grace.

You do not need your parents, your spouse or friends to validate you, Only El Roi who will understand you and never treat you with ill intent. God is willing to meet you where you are, loving you through all your weaknesses.

Hebrews 4:13-16
And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

I Peter 4:2
that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

1 Timothy 2:9-10
in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.

Job 12:7-9 (NIV):

"But ask the animals, and they will teach you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?"

We do not need to look at mirrors 24/7. Observe the beauty of dogs and all the animals God created, everything God created is good (Genesis 1:31, 1 Timothy 4:4). They never look in mirrors yet they are so beautiful. They do not need makeup, and the same goes for us.

You don't have to put on makeup for God to love you. God actually encourages us not to walk in the lusts of our flesh and self indulgence but walk in the spirit and will of God (1 Peter 4:2, Romans 8:4) He respects you and loves you without having to dress-up a certain way, God wants us to dress with humility (I Peter 5:5). God beautifies the humble with salvation (Psalm 149:4)He loves you because that is who He is: Love (1 John 4:8).

We may think makeup protects us from people bullying us but the truth is that Love always protects meaning God will always protect you. The Lord says, "Every tongue that rise up against you, you shall condemn."

We truely don't need makeup or dress-up. The greatest command is to walk in love, meaning respecting our husbands, brothers and sisters with our body parts, and respect the God who created it. Our God commands us to be modest and let our beauty not come from outward but inward (1 Timothy 2:9-10, Proverbs 31:30, 1 Peter 3:3-6, 1 Corinthians 6:19, Romans 12:2).

I Peter 3:3-6
'Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel— rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.'

Our Beauty comes from God & The Holy Spirit.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control is beautiful (Galatians 5:22-23), not our corruptible, sinful flesh (1 Corinthians 15:42-54). One day , this flesh will perish so we should focus on cleaning our spirit not self induldging and satisfying our flesh (Galatians 5:16).

Have you been called ugly?

Out the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, meaning that a person's words reveal what is in their heart rather than anything about you (Luke 6:45, Matthew 12:34).

Do not define yourself on the wisdom of man but on the truth of God (Proverbs 3:5-6, 1 Corinthians 2:5). The power of God lives inside you and it threatens the evil one who is the ugly one because it is separated from God (Galatians 2:20, James 3:15-17).

1 Peter 4:4-5
'In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.'

When people call you ugly, you can find comfort in the truth that all will have to give account to God (Romans 14:12, 2 Corinthians 5:10)

Who is man to define your beauty except our God who created you and sees every part of you?

God is the definition of true beauty and we can't even see him. Beauty is in God's purity and holiness.

Make-up seperates us from how God originally made us but remember, everything God made is good so always put God first in everything you do. Be aware of the Bondage of needing make-up. Sarai and all the women in the bible are beautiful for their faith in God, nowhere does it speak about their appearance. This battle is the evil one against God, nothing to do with flesh and blood. When someone you ugly, it isn’t about you. It is evil one attacking the Holy Spirit inside of all of us.

Matthew 6:25-34

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.

Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Are you not much more valuable than they?

Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow.

They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them.

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own.

When you eat, remember life is more than your body. Make your thoughts obedient to Christ (II Corinthians 10:5-7) and don't focus on your outward appearance (such as your weight) which perishes; But receive everything you eat in thanksgiving (1 Timothy 4:4).

Set your mind on the spirit not flesh (Romans 8:5-9). Our "last words" on earth won't be "Why did I eat that chocolate cake?"

Our corruptible flesh will perish: (II Corinthians 4:16-18)
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Our Final Victory (1 Corinthians 15:50-58)

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

“O Death, where is your sting?

O Hades, where is your victory?”

The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.