Lipstick & Slop, Pt. 1 (#WifeWorthy Diaries)

 

Those two words don’t really go together, do they? But stay with me and hopefully I can make things a little more plain for you. When you get all dressed and decide to put your face on: apply the foundation, get your eyes blended just right, get those eyebrows in order. When your outfit is perfect and your face is beat, you don’t grab your keys and say, “Hey, I’m gonna go and lay down in a pig pin and roll around in slop.”

If you do, my apologies.

But when you decide that you and your girls are going to go out for a night on the town for a little fun and flirting, you don’t pick the local barnyard to hang with the swine. You are putting on your best to put your best foot forward and catch the eye of your dark knight in shining armor on his trusty steed to ride off into the sunset.

But, as a woman, we should be paying as much attention to our personalities as we do to our outside appearances. You can dress a pig up, but in the end, it's still a pig.

Even as fly a pig as Miss Piggy is...

Proverbs 11:22

“A beautiful woman who lacks discretion is like a gold ring in a pig’s snout.”

Being a wife is hard, but being a WifeWorthy woman isn’t a walk in the park either. You are in a position where you are patiently waiting for God to whisper your name in a man’s ear, and you feel like you have to be ready at all times. After all, the first thing a person sees is the outward appearance, and you want to be attractive. There is nothing wrong with that. But nothing turns off a man quicker than a beautiful woman with a nasty attitude.

Ouch.

What good is a gold ring in a pig’s snout? Have you ever seen what a pig does with its snout? It’s always on the ground, sniffing and searching, or up another pig’s butt. Something of value has no good use in the mud. And a beautiful face has no business masking a bad attitude. So what exactly constitutes a bad attitude?

A woman that doesn’t live the way that God has designed her to live.
And there is no better place to start than your Bible.

When you get a chance, peruse Proverbs 31. It’s the roadmap to living the life of a virtuous woman, or in easier words, living the way God designed you to.

If you deal with your crazy, you won’t have to worry about your mask slipping and letting it show. You will have nothing to hide. There is no such thing as a perfect woman, but you can live your life in a way that’s perfect for you. And your perfect life will be ready for your perfect man who is also dealing with his own crazy. Men can have broken hearts too, you know. The ideal here is not to be perfect and not to be crazy.

It’s to be the best you that you possibly can be…