Day Eight: Maids a-milking
Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. (Psalm 34:5 ESV)
Beauty
They are not just maidens, wholesome, attractive, and admirable; they are also hard at work.
The number of maids a-milking matches up with the number of the beatitudes: eight. Adhering to the principles found in the beatitudes leads to beauty… not as the world sees it, but as God intends it.
Perhaps here, these ladies are shown as complete in both being and in action. The idea of ‘maids’ implies beauty… and their work, rather than merely being consumers, points to being beautiFUL.
As Christians, male and female, striving to live as Christ’s ambassadors, we can think of these milking maids. Christ’s ambassadors get to be beautiful. Not in the shallow, ever fading, visual sense that many attempt… but instead, beauty of being, and beauty of doing. Being focused on Christ, and Him alone. Doing the work to which He calls us, and nothing else.
That can make us whole, complete, and beautiful.
Focusing on ourselves, we can not be beautiful. But focusing on Christ, we can.