“Abraham Lincoln was generally considered to have been a homely man. Yet when you looked at his character, Abraham Lincoln shows us that in the end, it doesn’t matter what you look like, but who you are. It’s written that man looks at the outside, but God looks at the inside. That goes for you too. It doesn’t matter what you look like: big, little, old, young, handsome, homely, beautiful or plain. It doesn’t matter because God doesn’t see you that way. So why do we spend so much of our time trying to look good when God doesn’t even look at it. Don’t seek so much to look beautiful – seek rather to be beautiful. Start concentrating on actually being right instead of trying to appear right, or working at actually being good instead of looking good. All earthly beauty fades away, but the inner beauty of the Lord never does. So instead of wasting your life dwelling on how others see you or how you look, spend the remainder of your precious days on earth learning not to look beautiful but to be beautiful in the eyes of God. TODAY’S MISSION – Today, make it your focus not to look or appear beautiful, but to be beautiful in the eyes of God.”
—-An excerpt from Jonathan Cahn’s Sapphires