“Do you work here?” a friend asked me when he saw me working
at the auto parts store.
“We’ve been wondering that ourselves,” said an opportunistic
counterman.
“They keep me here for aesthetic purposes.” I countered the
counterman. “You see, because I am pleasing to the eyes, business picks up just
from my mere presence.”
Guffaws followed.
Actually, I have never had to worry about striving to look
above average. Average suits me
fine. To live my life striving to
maintain a movie-star appearance has never appealed to me. I am not one of the “pretty people” and am
happy that I am not.
I discovered that God can use extreme beauty, too. He used Esther’s beauty for His glory. God didn’t put her in that place and time
only for aesthetic purposes, but though her beauty and demeanor attracted the
king’s attention. He made her queen
according to God’s plan
Her beauty was not limited to her physical beauty, but her
Godliness shone through. Her pleasing
personality complimented her beauty, as well.
She was not a vain person, stuck on herself as many of the “pretty
people” are.
This just goes to show me that God can use anybody – even
“pretty people.”
“Now when the turn of
Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for
his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what
Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther
obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her. So Esther was
taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the
month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. And the king loved Esther above
all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the
virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen
instead of Vashti.” Esther 2:15-17
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