Nehemiah 8:10b stood out to me this week. Through our sorrow, we continue to know and experience God’s joy. “for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” May the following help us with a new perspective.

Beauty Treatment:

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The god we worship write their names on our faces.”  In other words, whatever we put in our heart eventually shows up on our face.  Have you noticed how often the Bible mentions facial expressions?  It says that Moses’ face shone (Exodus 34:30), Steven’s face glowed like an angel’s (Acts 6:15), Cain’s countenance fell (Gen. 4:5), and Laban’s countenance was angry (Gen. 31:12).  Jesus’ face shone like the sun when He was transfigured (Matt. 17:2).

A biographer said of missionary Henry Martyn, famed English missionary to India and Persia, “His features were not regular, but the expression was so luminous, so intellectual, so affectionate, so beaming with Divine charity, that no one could have looked at his features and thought of their shape or form—the outbeaming of his soul would absorb the attention of every observer.”

Americans spend billions of dollars every year trying to improve their faces.  But the best medicine for the face is in the heart—a happy attitude and a soul that’s full of Jesus.

As Psalm 34:5 puts it, “They looked unto him, and were lightened:”

As one doctor put it, “Your day tends to go the way the corners of your mouth turn.”

Our Faces Speak a message, Pastor Larry