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God can make you beautiful
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God can make you beautiful

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Blessed are all who come to the Father with pure hearts free from the hypocrisy of religious tradition and bigotry.
Mat 5:8
Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Psa 24:4
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

They come ready to hear the Father's instructions for their personal lives and are willing to change their ways to conform to our Father's teachings.
Hbr 10:22
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Isa 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

The Father can mold them like clay and reshape their lives, because they have not become stiff-necked in their religious beliefs and pride.
Rom 9:21
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Act 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.
2Ch 30:8
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but] yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

The Father is able to fire them in the furnace of tribulation thus turning their lives (like pottery) into works of beautiful art.
1Pe 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Rev 3:18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Brethren, submit yourselves onto The Father and allow Him to change you into something beautiful and glorious.
Jam 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Rom 6:13
Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

If you do so, He will.
If He does, your life will become so beautiful that He will place it on Heaven's display case for all to see.
Brethren, God can make you beautiful, so let Him.
Eph 5:25-27
    25 - - - Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
    26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
    27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.