
Once upon the shifting tides of Ghana’s spiritual landscape, Marriage Counsellor Charlotte Oduro became a herald of sanctimonious reform.

With the voice of a prophetess and the certainty of divine encounter, she vehemently declared cosmetics to be the instruments of demons—the perfumed disguises of vanity, conceived in the workshop of darkness.
Her messages rang through pulpits and social media with apocalyptic zeal: women, she warned, were desecrating their divine image by painting their faces with the pigments of perdition. Many trembled before her words; others hailed her as a modern Deborah.
But time, the relentless examiner of truth, unmasked another narrative. After the collapse of her marriage, the same woman re-emerged—her face adorned with rouge, lashes darkened, and tone transformed. She now extolled make-up as good and empowering for women, deriding as foolish anyone who refuses to “change their mind.”
Thus arises the inevitable question: was her earlier revelation a delusion, or has she now chosen to trivialize the sacred name of God for convenience? When “divine revelation” adjusts itself to personal circumstance, its inspiration must be human, not heavenly.
Such contradictions unveil a grave malady of our age—the reckless invocation of divine authority to sanctify mere opinion. Scripture, our eternal compass, admonishes: “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thess. 5:21).
God’s truth does not oscillate with emotion nor mutate with fashion. The Spirit of truth is consistent, coherent, and changeless as the nature of God Himself. When prophecy becomes an instrument of self-promotion, it ceases to be prophetic and becomes blasphemy cloaked in charisma.
The issue of make-up, therefore, transcends the vanity table—it is a moral and spiritual matter. The Bible does not outlaw cleanliness or elegance, yet it elevates beauty to a higher plane.
The apostle Peter wrote with apostolic tenderness: “Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold… but the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price” (1 Pet. 3:3–4). Genuine beauty is not painted on the skin but cultivated in the soul; it is the moral lustre of inner virtue, not the glitter of vanity’s mirror.
Paul, too, in his celestial ethic, commanded believers to dwell on “whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report” (Phil. 4:8). Every cosmetic choice must be judged at this tribunal of purity: does it glorify Christ or gratify self?
The principle of expediency governs the matter—“All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient” (1 Cor. 10:23). What is permissible may still be perilous when it darkens the witness of the Gospel or feeds the pride of life.
Even Tertullian, that fiery sentinel of early Christianity, thundered: “Let women paint their souls, not their cheeks.” For pigment fades with perspiration, but holiness glows with eternal radiance.
The Christian woman, therefore, lives not for the fleeting applause of men but for the approving gaze of her Redeemer. Her anticipation is eschatological — the resurrection body, glorious, incorruptible, ageless, and luminous without artificial hue.
My Final Appea:
O daughter of Eve, do not barter immortal splendour for temporal shimmer. The mirror may flatter, but only the Cross can transform. No foundation can conceal sin; no powder can mask guilt. Come to Christ, the Bridegroom of souls, who adorns the repentant with garments of salvation and robes of righteousness. His Spirit is Heaven’s own artisan, crafting beauty from ashes and glory from grace. Seek Him now, and your countenance shall shine—not with the dust of cosmetics, but with the eternal light of His glory.
Rev. Emmanuel Boachie COUNTRY DIRECTOR of Awsome Bible College, PRESIDENT of Centre for Biblical-Historical Christianity Defence and HEADPASTOR of Souls’ Pasture Church Kumasi Ghana. +233240375959.

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