Which one are you anxious about? Being a "Good-Looker" or a "No good-Looker?"

I read this blog entry at gotandem just now and decided to comment on it a little. (To go to this blog entry https://gotandem.com/posts/1826 and read).  Having good looks is so important to children and young people that the "Good-Lookers" are treated like princes and princesses by the  "No Good-Lookers, the "Normals"and the "Nondescripts.." 

This whole concept of the vast importance of good looks come from the shows that target the youngest members of our society. Hollywood continues to lie to millions of young people around the world. They tell them that if they are ugly or have a handicap in some way, they have no worth or value. One show that typifies this for me was Fat Like Me. This show describes a young attractive athlete who decides to research how fat people feel by donning a fat suit and pretending to be fat. She makes friends with an obese girl, and she realizes that they had a lot in common. But when the girl finds out the athlete's true identity and size, she stops speaking to her because she feels betrayed by someone whom she looked up to.

I read in a psychology book some years ago that beautiful people are thought of as good people, while "No good-Lookers"are said to be evil. We all have said this at one time or the other, "how could such a good-looking person do such a horrible thing?" It is as if being beautiful is a weapon against being bad.  There are beautiful people who are the same inside and outside as and ugly people who are ugly in appearance and temperament. The same is true in the opposite way (beauty -bad and ugly-good). 

The Bible says that God looks only on the heart. It's a pity that the same cannot be said about us people here on earth. Unless God changes us and enables us to see how He see. we will continue with the same old narrow view - that beauty is desirable above all and "Good-lookers"are good people. Will we choose to go beyond appearances and find out the truth?

"Bur rhe LORD said to Samuel, "Don't judge by his appearance or his height for I have rejected him. The LORD doesn't see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearances, but the LORD looks at the heart."  1 Samuel 16:7 (New Living Translation)