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Everyone likes to feel like they look good. We are vain creatures, and society does a good job of judging everyone based on their outward appearance.Saint Peter writes these verses specifically to women. The verse before says:Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel" (1 Peter 3:3).1 Peter 3:3-4 begs an interesting question that has been discussed by man through all time: what, exactly, is beauty? Saint Peter urges women that it is not their outward appearances that make them beautiful but instead an inner beauty that consists of a meek and quiet spirit. How exactly do we demonstrate and develop a meek and quiet spirit?A spirit such as Saint Peter suggests is developed through our inner spirit as well as our outward appearance. If a person cares so much about their outward appearance, there is less likelihood that they will strongly develop their inner beauty. It can be so hard to develop the inner when all the things in society seem to indicate that the outer is what defines beauty. Sadly, "sex sells," and movies, music, advertisements, and fashion all grab with greed for more sales, with no thought of the consequences of their campaigns.Individually we must reflect on what it means to be beautiful. Think back on your own life: recall a time when you felt beautiful. Why did you feel that way? Was it because of your outward appearance? An act of lust? Or was it something more meaningful, like a loving embrace or glance that penetrated the skin and went deeper.Clothing, youthful appearance, and even charm, fades. "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised" (Proverbs 31:30). God is not asking us to fear Him, but instead to take heed of his teachings. Saint Peter crafts a more delicate version of the same message, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the beholder that matters is God.