As human beings endowed with senses, our eyes and ears, sense of touch and smell can draw us to things that I would not classify as “holy attractions”.

As a younger woman I was overly drawn to beautiful fashion. The business world in which I was working at the time was preaching, “dress for success”.   So I confess to you I focused too much on the garments on the outside instead of the character on the inside.

After I had my children though, life started to change. I was so busy with my little ones that I remember one day rushing out of the house so fast I had inadvertently put on a mismatched pair of shoes. It was only as I was standing in the lobby of the office building that I looked down at my feet to see a blue shoe and a black shoe causing my cheeks to blush in embarrassment.

Years later my daughter told me I had lost my sense of “style”. At that point I looked down at my mismatched socks and said “Honey the clothes are not important.” I had found God and He was carefully and methodically removing the veil before my eyes to see things differently.

It’s easy to spend too much time focusing on the physical nature of things. We are drawn to beautiful things, beautiful cars, beautiful homes, beautiful clothes…BUT all of that beauty is temporary!

As God helps us to evolve from sensual creatures to spiritual beings, we will discover that the only true and sustainable beauty is the beauty of God dwelling inside a human soul. The challenge is that often that beauty in the soul is hiding under layers of sensual veneer like a “diamond in the rough.” How can we assist one another in become truly beautiful?

Food for Thought: The path of discovering true beauty is the path of discovering the source of all holiness and the source of true love—GOD!

A holy attraction is one where we are drawn invisibly and powerfully to God’s loving presence, to God’s truth, to God’s compassion, to God’s wisdom, mercy and justice.

Here are some holy attractions that I encourage you to discover.

Time alone with God

In a busy life where multitasking is the order of the day, just the concept of scheduling quiet time with God may seem impossible to you. But the truth is, time alone with God is possible if we choose to value it enough.

Perhaps the greatest mystery in life is that everything that is tangible that surrounds us is truly only temporary in nature, yet the power of the invisible God is eternal and it is the only thing that is indeed sustainable except it cannot be discerned using our senses. God’s presence and holiness is only discernable with God’s Spirit quietly and carefully opening this mystery up to us.

“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10

The day will come when all people will know God. God has promised us that the day will come when we will no longer have to teach people about Him.

“No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.” Hebrews 8:11

God promises to give His creatures a “new heart” and a “new spirit”

“And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.” Ezekiel 11:19-20

Learn and Treasure the Word of God

While we are waiting for the fulfillment of God’s promises, I encourage you to continue to invest time learning and treasuring the Word of God. In your quiet time with Jesus, open up the Bible and keep getting to know Him for in His Word is His plan for you, a plan to strengthen you and to help you to grow spiritually.

Receive the Body and Blood of Jesus

I encourage you to receive the Body and Blood of Jesus that is His greatest gift to mankind – HIMSELF!   Veiled in the fragility of the species of bread and wine, Our Holy God chooses to dwell so that we can become one with Him.

“Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.”   John 6:56

Live in the Spirit of God and Do what Jesus tells you

When we are reborn of God’s Holy Spirit we begin to look at the world and each other differently. Lust must die so that love can be born!

Sexual attraction that does exist in the holy presence of God is NOT a “holy attraction”, it is Satan’s way of degrading men and women to the crude and uninspired level of animals.

Jesus said, “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”   Matthew 5:28

The righteous man, Job of the Bible, tells the people: “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.” Job 31:1

Some may say there is no harm in “just looking”, but that’s not what Jesus teaches. I will tell you as a younger woman I could feel men looking at me, undressing me with their eyes and how I wished they could see my heart and my mind and not my flesh! If only my flesh were invisible to them…and that’s what happens when we are reborn of the God’s Spirit. We begin to see differently. We see one another tightly interwoven in a masterful divine design where we are to take care of one another, where we are to be God’s instruments perfected to do the work He wills us to do.

Holy Lord, help us to be attracted to that which you deem to be holy. Help us to reject sensual and carnal attractions so we can be drawn to You Holy Jesus dwelling in the eternal mysteries that today may still be invisible to us.