Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold

"Everything that Glitters is Not Gold" by Dan Seals tells the tale of a woman leaving behind her husband and daughter to pursue a life of glamour as a rodeo queen, and while she is gaining fame and popularity she is missing out on watching her daughter grow. The father in this song tells the message that not only was his former wife not like gold (although she sparkled with her rhinestones and sunlight in her hair), but the life his wife gave up in other to pursue fame was not gold either.

There are many things in life that may seem like it is gold because its appearance shimmers. It entices our passion, our lust; and we will bend heaven and earth in pursuit of it only to find out too little, too late that it was never gold at all. It will cost us more than we were willing to pay.

I have recently come out of a relationship with a woman who was physically beautiful, and her hunger for physicality was intoxicating. But as the relationship progressed, I started seeing her for who she really was, and soon she started showing her true toxic nature. All of her physical beauty could not outshine the true toxicity that was permeating from her. She glittered all right, but not because she was gold. It was all a show much like the rodeo and the rodeo queens.

In the Book of Proverbs, King Solomon said it this way:

"As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who is without discretion [her lack of character mocks her beauty], (11:22, AMP).

In other words, Solomon was saying that even gold can be tarnished, and a woman who lacks discretion is similar to the gold piece in a pig's snout. There are women who rely on their beauty to get them where they want to go in life. They will blaze a trail of fire to get there, and once they have arrived or if they never get there, they will discard those whom they used. It's not just women either because men do the same thing.

We need to be careful that we are not pursuing someone or something just because it looks lucrative. Instead, we must be led by the Holy Spirit instead of our own desires. The Bible says our heart is deceitful above all else (Jeremiah 7:9), so we need to be careful in following it and not be enticed by the physical appearance of things.

Everything that glitters is not gold.

Until next time...