The following blog entry entitled, "When Fairness is Unfair" was taken from Visionarydaughters.com, written on August 31, 2012. I decided to post this because I agree with what the blog post states about beauty from a Biblical perspective, God's perspective.
" Earlier this year, 18-year-old Florence Colgate was dubbed “Britain’s
Most Beautiful Face,” not by the authority of beauty pageant judges,
but by the authority of science and math. Miss Colgate’s face won out
over 8,000 others on the basis of best match-up with a mathematically
devised blueprint for perfect facial proportions based on the Golden
Ratio.
Her “scientifically proven” prettiness sparked a huge debate that
still rages all over the internet. Hundreds protested (for good reason)
that the mystery of what makes one face more attractive than another
can’t be solved with a formula. A much bigger concern, however, was over
what that formula would do to the self-image of millions who can’t
measure up to it: Women would feel like they were doomed to ugliness
because their faces didn’t match the grid.
Most of us, of course, don’t need the aid of a scientific
beauty-o-meter giving us an exact reading on our facial deficiencies to
fear that our looks just aren’t “good enough.” If this is how we feel,
we need to first take comfort in the fact that God has not given us one
prescribed standard for physical perfection that we all have to match up
to in order to be beautiful – a good thing, since He created us all to
look very different. Also, His purpose for the diversity in our looks
was not so that we could hold beauty contests. Beauty is not a game to
win or lose, but something we all should be cultivating by the proper
stewardship of our bodies to glorify Him. This is a good reminder for
both the girls who invest inordinate amounts of time into their looks
aiming to come out on top, and the girls who have given up trying
because they feel they can’t compete.
When temped to resent the reality that some appear to be created a
little more equal than others, we need to remember that God has a
purpose for everything He does – the people He creates and also the way
He creates them. God is not color- or beauty-blind, and His Word often
uses objective terms like “ruddy,” “lovely to look at,” “without
blemish” and also “mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind” to describe His
creations. But asking why bad hair happens to good people is as useless
as the pot asking the potter why he was made a pot. We may never know
why some were created with more proportioned features or better skin
than others, but He does, and we can rejoice in the fact that we don’t
have to be “equally” made to be “wonderfully and fearfully made.” (Psa.
139:14)
God has given Miss Colgate an objectively beautiful face – one that
is much more symmetrical and aesthetically “perfect” than mine. Does
that make her more beautiful? Does that make her better? Does that mean
that God did not create my face equally well? These questions miss the
point. What matters is that He gave us each the faces that pleased Him,
and that we are both equally accountable to Him to steward the bodies He gave us and glorify Him in them. "
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