I think someone needs to address this issue. I have watched several YouTube videos, read a couple blogs, and even heard a lot of pastors criticizing and condemning makeup on the pulpit.
Let me clarify this; I love makeup, if I could only understand what those YouTubers say, I would be doing full face makeup!
It saddens my heart that something inanimate, is considered evil! I mean, is the devil so dumb as to just live in make up? Or short skirts, or pants? Or some type of music instrument?
The devil can use such stuff as a snare, but that doesn’t mean that makeup, or a certain instrument is evil, no! It means, we need to check our hearts priorities! Where your treasure is, that is where your heart will also be!
Satan did not use a fruit to tempt Eve, he used her heart’s desire, and manipulated her.
If you feel God is asking you to stop doing makeup, well and good! Just don’t go around condemning those who wear it, we don’t have the same convictions.
I’m not one sided either. Makeup can be used for good, or for bad. I see makeup as an art. I know I’m beautiful with or without makeup, because I have my identity in Christ.
If you use makeup as a clutch, a definition of beauty, or as an identity, or because you are insecure about how you look, I think you should slow down and get rooted and grounded in His word first.
I heard on girl saying, ‘God hates makeup,’ huh? Did He tell you that?
When Samuel is sent by God to anoint David as King, he keeps looking at the brother’s physical appearance and saying, ‘surely, this is the one!’ but God kept rejecting them! He finally told Samuel, ‘ you look at the outward, the physical. But I look at the inside, the heart.’
God doesn’t care if you cake your face or not, He doesn’t care, if you wear long skirts, or short skirts or pants, He doesn’t care if you are black or white, or Indian or American, No. He cares about your heart. Where is my heart? Is it hidden in Him?
What is the state of my heart? Is it seeking to please Him or myself? Who is the master of my heart? Me or God?
Jesus told the Pharisees, ” it is not what goes into a person that defiles them, but what comes out of the person.”
Does that strike a nerve? It does to me.
Instead of looking for excuses to not check our hearts, and accusing inanimate objects of being evil, let’s listen to God. Ask Him to clean every corner of your heart and rid it of evil. Let us check our priorities and make them straight.
But most of all, let us sit at the feet of Jesus and be fed, that we may know truth from false, and be grounded in His love.
Bless y’all
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