Turning A Blind Eye

One of Satan's most convincing and common-place lies is "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Confucious corrected this perfectly when he said, "everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Because not everyone sees beauty in everything, people have not diagnosed their own blindess. Instead, the world decided that beauty is percieved differently through each pair of eyes. It assigned fault and inconsistancy to beauty and not to humanity where it belongs. Beauty is unchanging and ever present; humanity is ignorant and capricious. This flaw is most apparent in the treatment of others. By averting man's eyes from inner beauty, Satan has encouraged and instigated un-Christ like behavior. I had a friend in first grade, Kelly, whom the other kids had cast off because they thought she was fat and ugly. They failed to penetrate Satan's dark mist and understand that beauty is so much more than what their eyes see. Kelly was the sweetest, most faithful friend of mine at the time. Her inner beauty out shone all of the prepy girls' perfect facades. More that this, I know that God created everything in this universe and beyond-- God does not make ugly things.