The Quiet American“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.” (1 Peter 3:3-4) In the movie The Quiet American, Brendan Fraser played a CIA agent who tried to obtain information about colonial Vietnam from Michael Caine to prepare for the American involvement in Indochina as the French were leaving. Although some of us cannot be The Quiet American, a quiet and gentle spirit in God’s eyes is very precious for it is a beauty that is Simply Incorruptible. For many years, the
media and companies like Victoria’s Secret have been promoting
physical beauty by revealing as much as possible and doing it in a lewd
and lascivious manner. Lewd is sexually provocative in appearance promoting
promiscuity and lascivious is defined in part as carnal and lustful.
But God warned us in His Word not to lust after the overly sexualized
bodies of women and men in James 1:14-16, “But each one is tempted
when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire
has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown,
brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.” Copyright © 2002 Eddy Ministries. All rights reserved. Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
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