The advertisement said: This summer you can show off the perfect body for only $600! It was an offer that she couldn’t resist, and she decided to make an appointment.
She went from her work to the spa with a clear picture in her mind of the new image that she wanted. It was a beautiful vintage-style salon with photographs on the wall and magazines strategically placed promoting the perfect body. She redeemed the promotional coupon and received good attention for the money she paid. She also started biweekly treatments that would work on shaping her body. But she did not find a treatment for her heart.
Beauty spas are often the preferred hiding place for feelings of abandonment, resentment, and low self-esteem. Men and women alike seek refuge in an aesthetic center as an escape from their difficult realities. Yet the Bible says to “watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life” (Proverbs 4:23 AMP). True beauty comes from a heart filled with God.
My profession is dermatology; my vocation is treatment for the hurting heart. We need to maintain a balance between outer and inner beauty. It’s important to maintain healthy diet habits and exercise for physical and mental health, but we cannot neglect the care of our hearts and spirits.
Today you can have a Heart Spa session, unlike any treatment you have had before. You can undergo a cleansing of your soul, receive forgiveness, learn to forgive others, smooth the rough spots, tone up your values, strengthen your emotions, and much more.
The spa treatment that Jesus offers us personally is given with His loving hands and the purifying water of life! You don’t need a special coupon offer, a VIP salon, or even a credit card. You only need an open heart.
All that has happened to you that has affected your self-esteem—disparaging words or situations that have made you insecure and have driven you to strive for a perfect body and eternal youth—God wants to heal and restore. He formed you with His own loving hands and made you perfect (Psalm 139:14–18).
This is not the spa mud bath therapy that you see advertised. It is you as clay in the hands of the Divine Potter, Jesus, who will mold your life and make you into a beautiful new vessel for His glory (Isaiah 64:8).