"Now Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar. And after a time Ammon, David's son, loved her." All of us enjoyed God's beautiful people either outward beauty or inner beauty, for God made us all into His image! Fat or scrawny, male or female, exposed or covered, whoever we are, we are all part of the Body of Christ, Beau-ti-ful!
Now, when Ammon loved Tamar's beauty for a wrong reason, it led Ammon to do something wrong! So "when she brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, 'Come, lie with me, my sister.' She answered him, 'No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.' But Ammon ignored her request and violated her beauty, "And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went... So Tamar lived, a desolate woman, in her brother Absalom's house... he had violated his sister Tamar." Your beauty were violated somehow by someone either big or small and you are hiding like Tamar was hiding...
Because someone else enjoyed her beauty in a wrong way, so her beauty was violated! Now she begun to live alone, separated from the community. She forgot what it's like to be beautiful in God's sight. She forgot what it meant to be part of the Body of Christ. But it takes time for Tamar to allow God to take ash by ash away from her head so that she may rediscover her beauty! God is also taking some ash away from your head over time, ash by ash...
If you ever tried to take the ash away from her head yourself, you may cause Tamar to go futher away from the community. Absalom once tried to take the ash away from Tamar's head by murdering Ammon, which made things much worse! So Absalom had to escape! David grieved. Tamar probably isolated herself much more for none was written about her afterward, so she disappeared! When all they needed to do is to sit still and allow God to take care of them. God is waiting for you all to sit still and allow Him taking care of you all...
If you are like Tamar or know someone like Tamar right now, remember that no matter how far Tamar's from the community, God's always beside her! Even some of your loved ones are beside you when you've never known it! "There was born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman." So Absalom, her brother, remembered her even when he was futher away from her sister. And he will always remember her for he named his daughter Tamar! Tamar probably didn't know and probably you don't know either...
God simply said, "You are BEAUTIFUL!"
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