True Beauty & Grace College

God is good, merciful, gracious, and just.  He is a Rewarder to both the good and the evil. But it's His Love that motivates Him to bless His children who love Him, and He works out all things for our good.  God does give beauty for ashes, especially physical and spiritual beauty.  It is the Spirit Who gives Life to our flesh and to all we do & say, so that The Lord will be glorified (Isaiah 61:3).  

Sarah

Esther

Song of Solomon

a different kind of beauty

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me  to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and  the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3 To  appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for  ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit  of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
4 And  they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former  desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of  many generations.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord:  men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of  the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 For  your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice  in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double:  everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8 For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct  their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 And  their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among  the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the  seed which the Lord hath blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,  my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the  garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of  righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a  bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations."