Moody Mosaic Article: What is Beauty?

I wrote this for our schools news paper last month! Enjoy!

What is beauty? Is beauty found in a rose bud? Is beauty found in the stars that we see in the night sky? Is there a true definition for beauty? Different cultures have distinct views of how to define true beauty. For example, in America, there are many different things that a women can wear to present herself as beautiful. A women could use a lengthy floor dress, a fur coat or high heeled shoes. In contrast, in many parts of Africa, women use face painting to express their beauty. In most of the Middle East, women highly value their modesty, so you will often see them displaying their features by wearing long flowing dresses. All these women are defining beauty by their own cultural standards, so forms of elegance can vary drastically.

In the American culture, we define beauty in many different ways. To most teenage girls in our country, something we might define as beautiful may be the way our best friend did her hair that morning or watching the sun rise. Teenage guys might see a giant mountain they can climb or a valley with a long ice blue river flowing down the middle and those things can be a man’s definition of something beautiful. Some people will look at the ocean and think that that must be what is truly beautiful, while others may have the same opinion about canyons or lakes. Everyone is different.

Even God has things that He calls beautiful. God calls a gentle and quiet spirit beautiful, and, we know He loves waterfalls and rainbows and thunderstorms because He created them all.

Unfortunately, culture presents Americans a twisted view of “true beauty.” Thanks to the Bible, believers have some understanding of what beauty is not. Websites can display inappropriate images of men and women and claim that, because God made us all different, we should feel no shame looking at  images of pornography and lusting after other people. Culture also tell us that young ladies walking around wearing virtually nothing is also considered worthy of attention or “beautiful.”

True beauty can take on so many different forms. A person does not need to enjoy all the same things everyone else does. God created all people different, and we all have things we like and do not like. What is true beauty? Does beauty have a single definition? Once you figure it out, does it line up with what the Bible considers beautiful, which is anything pure and noble and right?   

 

The Megalodon

As I have mentioned before, I love giant sea creatures! That includes sharks! There is a shark that is believed to have been real at one point in time but is believed to now, have gone extinct. I don't know if this shark was real or not but some people through out history, have said they have seen this huge shark. To give you an idea of the size of this giant creature, here are a few images that represent what people think it would of looked like and how large it was! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah it would have actually been as big as JAWS!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are all just ideas but if this shark was real at some point, that would be amazing!

 

 

 

Sharks are amazing creatures and can be scary but it is important to remember, that when we are afraid, God controls all things and is greater and more powerful than all things. just think, even this shark listens and bows before God almighty humbly!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smile!

 

 

 

Oh and I hope you are having a HAPPY SUMMER!
:)

 

 

The Master of the Leviathan

I have always loved giant, strange and amazing sea creatures! I find the great mysteries of the deep intriguing! Why? I love learning of the great monsters that are on this earth because it gives me a great prospective for how big God is and sea creatures are just awesome! God speaks of one of his great creations in the book of Job, a unique terror of the earth, that lurks in the ocean depts. His monstrous sea serpent, the Leviathan. The Leviathan is so great, yet it will bow before God and beg Him to spare his life. The following is from the book of Job chapter 41 and it is God speaking to Job and questioning him! If you don't know Jobs story, basically he was an extremely wealthy man and God allowed him to be tested by Satan and as Job is questioning why God is doing this, God responds by stating the following words along with many others! I highly recommend reading all of Job! Its great! So here you go! Job 41.(this is God speaking to Job)

 

 

First, here's what some artists envision this great beast as, just so you can get an idea!







 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Now see what you think!



 

 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook
    or tie down its tongue with a rope?
² Can you put a cord through its nose
    or pierce its jaw with a hook?
³ Will it keep begging you for mercy?
    Will it speak to you with gentle words?
⁴ Will it make an agreement with you
    for you to take it as your slave for life?
⁵ Can you make a pet of it like a bird
    or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
⁶ Will traders barter for it?
    Will they divide it up among the merchants?
⁷ Can you fill its hide with harpoons
    or its head with fishing spears?
⁸ If you lay a hand on it,
    you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
⁹ Any hope of subduing it is false;
    the mere sight of it is overpowering.
¹⁰ No one is fierce enough to rouse it.
    Who then is able to stand against me?
¹¹ Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
    Everything under heaven belongs to me.

 

“I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,
    its strength and its graceful form.
¹³ Who can strip off its outer coat?
    Who can penetrate its double coat of armor^[b]?
¹⁴ Who dares open the doors of its mouth,
    ringed about with fearsome teeth?
¹⁵ Its back has^[c] rows of shields
    tightly sealed together;
¹⁶ each is so close to the next
    that no air can pass between.
¹⁷ They are joined fast to one another;
    they cling together and cannot be parted.
¹⁸ Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
    its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
¹⁹ Flames stream from its mouth;
    sparks of fire shoot out.
²⁰ Smoke pours from its nostrils
    as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
²¹ Its breath sets coals ablaze,
    and flames dart from its mouth.
²² Strength resides in its neck;
    dismay goes before it.
²³ The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
    they are firm and immovable.
²⁴ Its chest is hard as rock,
    hard as a lower millstone.
²⁵ When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;
    they retreat before its thrashing.
²⁶ The sword that reaches it has no effect,
    nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
²⁷ Iron it treats like straw
    and bronze like rotten wood.
²⁸ Arrows do not make it flee;
    slingstones are like chaff to it.
²⁹ A club seems to it but a piece of straw;
    it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
³⁰ Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
    leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
³¹ It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron
    and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
³² It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
    one would think the deep had white hair.
³³ Nothing on earth is its equal—
    a creature without fear.
³⁴ It looks down on all that are haughty;
    it is king over all that are proud.”

I just think its amazing that God is so big that even a creature like this fears and bows before the Great Almighty! This thing is so ginormous! If the Leviathan is this great, then how much greater is his creator?

 

 

 

 

What do you think?

 

You Might Be Interested

Hey so lately I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos about the rapture and end time things! I really encourage everybody to check this stuff out! There is some amazing stuff out there that we can definitely use to strengthen our faith and that just put us in awe of  God and should help make us more aware of the things to come! Here is what I recommend you look up on YouTube! Four Blood Moons, Real Angels Caught on Tape, End times 2015-2016, Mark of the Beast in America, Babies Talking to and Seeing Jesus, Visions of the Rapture, Visions From God, Visions of Heaven, Weird Trumpet Sounds Heard Around the World, and End times Crazy Weather 2015.

Sometimes videos will be offered as options to check out that are visions of evil things and spirits of the dark realms and of Hell but God has told us to keep away from those things and the images could be extremely frightening so it is up to you but personally, I say I wouldn't even get near that stuff. I can promise you though, the videos that you will find and discover about Heavenly things, will keep you plenty entertained. Its life changing stuff and its amazing! Good luck and enjoy!

 
 
 

Oh and Happy Valentines Day one day late! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a couple pretty pictures for you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:)

This Girl is Amazing

To be honest, this girls life left me speechless. Way to go for this girl! Her name is Lizzie Velasquez and she's 26. She is awesome! Check out her video!

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIvML-TrnNQ 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzPbY9ufnQY

Some Stunning Pictures

I didn't take any of these pictures but I just thought they were really stunning and I wanted to share them. I don't know who the photographers are but I just thought these were really amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed looking at these!    

 

 

Love, Ash:)