Jezebel Seduction? Or God's Light and Love?

When we are looking our best and feeling great, getting ready, smoothing our hair and making our skin glow, adding perfume, jewelry—what are we doing, really? It’s the mindset that matters most here. Being mindful of God and of connection through prayer is so important.

If we are seeking to be prayerfully beautiful, our beauty routine is to the glory of God. We recognize our beauty is His, and our efforts to enhance our looks are for Him. We wish for the Holy Spirit to shine through us and bring His light and beauty to the world through us. Our beauty then becomes radiant with goodness. It has purpose.

But rather, if we are seeking to look better than our girlfriends, be the hottest girl at the party, turn heads at the club—if we are seeking to gain attention to ourselves, or manipulate men into weakness, or charm them superficially, then we are tapping into the Jezebel spirit, which is negative and a very destructive energy.

Jezebel was an evil queen married to King Ahab during turbulent times in Israel. She was immoral, idolatrous, and unrepentant. She was set on destroying God’s prophets, and if she could not gain control through force, she gained it through seduction. “When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window” (2 kings 9:30 ESV). Jezebel used her looks, painted her face, to seduce—not to glorify God. We must never be tempted to do the same.

The Jezebel spirit creates rifts in all areas of your life through negative seduction. Using your looks, attaining beauty in this mindset is very harmful. It can create many problems in your personal life, and in your spiritual well-being.

To avoid the energy of the Jezebel spirit, be prayerful during your beauty routine! Be certain to show gratitude for the beauty you have, which is God’s, and not your own. Use your beauty to shine the love of the Holy Spirit to others.

Choose to elevate God’s beauty through your looks, rather than allowing yourself to get a little ego boost, or use the energy of the Jezebel spirit for some kind of personal gain. As you gaze into the mirror, try to see the beauty of God shining through. Allow His goodness to fill you. Do not allow the Jezebel spirit to overtake you!