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 2002 movie The Quiet American based on the Graham Greene novel, Brendan Fraser is a CIA agent who tries to obtain information about colonial Vietnam from British expatriate Michael Caine to prepare for the American involvement in Indochina as the French were leaving in the 1950s. 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 © 2003 Eddy Ministries. All rights reserved. Subscribe/Unsubscribe: eddyn@earthlink.net
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