{"id":697,"date":"2018-01-24T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/renewed-from-inside-ou\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:12:45","slug":"renewed-from-inside-ou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Renewed: From the Inside Out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My word for today is RENEWED: to make like new, restore to freshness, to make new spiritually, regenerated, revive, rebuild<\/p>\n

I’m sure noticing many advertisements and labels that shout out \u201cRenew your youth! Reduce those lines and wrinkles! Guaranteed success or your money back! Become a new you!\u201d I\u2019ll admit, I\u2019ve yielded to their promises and purchased some of those products. I\u2019d like to say that, as they promised, I look ten years younger from their \u201cmagic potion\u201d \u2013 but, NOT!<\/p>\n

The truth is I AM okay with my age, and I\u2019m okay with these lines that seemed to have come from nowhere…quickly. I\u2019ve earned every line and crease with every chapter of every story I\u2019ve lived. Those stories make up who I am. And I wouldn\u2019t trade my stories, and my years, for anything. I\u2019ve lived long enough now to see (even the tough years \u2014 the ones I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d survive) how God used every one and every experience to bring me to a place of deep assurance and sweet peace today. God showed Himself strong through it all. And my trust in Him grew. <\/p>\n

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The journey from youth to maturity has come quickly, but I’ve found that RENEWAL really is possible. It\u2019s not the kind of renewal that\u2019s promised in a store-bought product on a shelf or a surgeon’s knife. RENEWAL begins with yielding to our Creator and letting Him RENEW us from the inside out.<\/p>\n

To be RENEWED from the inside out is purging all those “unsightly” ways, attitudes and emotions from the inside so that our outside reflects God\u2019s beauty. My Mom always said \u201cBeauty is skin deep\u2026.it\u2019s what’s in your heart that makes you beautiful.\u201d I think about Saint Mother Teresa. She had more wrinkles than anyone, but at 85 she was younger and more vibrant than a 20-year old as she loved and cared for hurting humanity. From the inside out….she was extraordinarily beautiful.<\/p>\n

When we realize WE ARE BEAUTIFUL because the marvelous, exquisitely beautiful ONE lives in us, and when we embrace THAT BEAUTY and let it shine through our eyes, speak through our mouths, hug with our arms, love with the love of Christ, then we will be RENEWED and the fountain of youth will be flowing out of us to a hurting world.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 31:30 “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”<\/p>\n

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