Where is your beauty?

Hello All!  A little late getting to you today.  God is good all the time, all the time God is good.  TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!!!
   I awoke mid sleep with what I believe God shared with me.  My sleep was just light slumber, awake from 2ish to 5 a.m.  God was visiting with me and here is what has been laid on my heart.
   ¹⁷ Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
Hmmm!  What the eye sees, the heart desires.  Is everything on the outside what is important?  I think not!  What is on the inside; what is in the heart; that is what makes a person really beautiful.
   Now, Leah was tender eyed - what does this mean to you?  Nice eyes!?  BUT---Rachel was what?.......Beautiful and well favoured.  Jacob was smitten by Rachel's beauty; yet when God blessed the two women, for whom Jacob spent 14 years of his life working to marry; Leah by deceit; Rachel by love; Rachel was barren and Leah bore sons.  A son Reuben, and she wished for Jacob to now love her.  Wow!  To live 7 years plus with a person who tolerates you, yet loves you not.  Leah must have been a really good woman.
   However, there stood jealously and anger between Leah, Rachel and Jacob.   Rachel was barren, Leah had sons, and Jacob could not understand why Rachel was barren, as Jacob asked, "Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?"
   Then, there came a competition between the sisters. Leah was past child bearing, Rachel was barren, so Rachel gave her handmaid to Jacob - she conceived - sons came. Leah then gave her handmaiden to Jacob - she conceived - sons came.  Hmmm! What a tangled web.  
   Now let's jump to a man, Samuel, who was searching for God's anointed. He went to Jesse, had Jesse bring forth his sons, first the oldest - Samuel 6......"looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.⁷ But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."
   Jesse went through all his sons, Samuel asked if he had any more sons.  Then Jesse told about David, ¹² And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
    Not what God told Samuel, "for the LORD seeth not as man seeth" - does this make you stop and think?   Many Sundays our pastor prays and asks God to let us see others as He, God, sees them.  David was not "of a beautiful countenance" yet a man of God that God used well.
    Where are you, today?  Are you of beautiful countenance inside that God will use?  Love you all.
In Christ's Love and Grace
   Johnny