A New Orleans Police officer died after her Brazilian Butt Lift surgery

According to the below video from The Daily Guardian, 26-year-old Widelis Rosa, a police officer with the New Orleans Police Department dies from complications related to her Brazilian Butt Lift. Love warns, so I’m going to be direct. Consider the many famous people who have gone down this destructive path. Whether it be fake looks, fake lips, fake boobs, and now fake butts. Don’t do it, be content with the way God created you. But I’m not without sin, and my sins are many. I do not know Rosa’s motive. But in the late 80s, I tried to improve my looks with steroids. I was a deceived, lost, worldly man. For starters. The book of Ecclesiastes is full of warnings about the deceit of vanity. Proverbs 5 warns of seductive, immoral lips. Proverbs 31:30 (NKJV) says, “Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord she shall be praised.”

Take a look at the word vanity in Ecclesiastes.

“BREATH hebel (הֶבֶל, 1892), “breath; vanity; idol.” Cognates of this noun occur in Syriac, late Aramaic, and Arabic. All but 4 of its 72 occurrences are in poetry (37 in Ecclesiastes).

First, the word represents human “breath” as a transitory thing: “I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity [literally, but a breath]” (Job 7:16). Second, hebel means something meaningless and purposeless: “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity” (Eccl. 1:2). Third, this word signifies an “idol,” which is unsubstantial, worthless, and vain: “They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities …” (Deut. 32:21—the first occurrence)

W. E. Vine, Merrill F. Unger, and William White Jr., Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Nashville, TN: T. Nelson, 1996), 25.

Here’s Baptist preacher John Gill (1697- 1771) on the “vanity” in Ecclesiastes 1:2.

Ver. 2. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, &c.] This is the preacher’s text; the theme and subject he after enlarges upon, and proves by an induction of particulars; it is the sum of the whole book. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity; most extremely vain, exceedingly so, the height of vanity: this is repeated, both for the confirmation of it, men being hard of belief of it; and to shew how much the preacher was affected with it himself, and to affect others with the same. The Targum reads, vanity of vanities in this world; which is right as to the sense of the passage; for though the world, and all things in it, were made by God, and are very good; yet, in comparison of him, are less than nothing, and vanity; and especially as become subject to it through sin, a curse being brought upon the earth by it; and all the creatures made for the use of men liable to be abused, and are abused, through luxury, intemperance, and cruelty; and the whole world usurped by Satan, as the god of it. Nor is there any thing in it, and put it all together, that can give satisfaction and contentment; and all is fickle, fluid, transitory, and vanishing, and in a short time will come to an end: the riches of the world afford no real happiness, having no substance in them, and being of no long continuance; nor can a man procure happiness for himself or others, or avert wrath to come, and secure from it; and especially these are vanity, when compared with the true riches, the riches of grace and glory, which are solid, substantial, satisfying, and are for ever: the honours of this world are empty things, last a very short time; and are nothing in comparison of the honour that comes from God, and all the saints have, in the enjoyment of grace here, and glory hereafter: the sinful pleasures of life are imaginary things, short-lived ones; and not to be mentioned with spiritual pleasures, enjoyed in the house of God, under the word and ordinances; and especially with those pleasures, for evermore, at the right hand of God. Natural wisdom and knowledge, the best thing in the world; yet much of it is only in opinion; a great deal of it false; and none saving, and of any worth, in comparison of the knowledge of Christ, and of God in Christ; all the forms of religion and external righteousness, where there is not the true fear and grace of God, are all vain and empty things. Man, the principal creature in the world, is vain man; that is his proper character in nature and religion, destitute of grace: every man is vain, nay, vanity itself; high and low, rich and poor, learned or unlearned; nay, man at his best estate, as worldly and natural, is so; as even Adam was in his state of innocence, being fickle and mutable, and hence he fell, Psal. 39:5, 11 and 62:9 and especially his fallen posterity, whose bodies are tenements of clay; their beauty vain and deceitful; their circumstances changeable; their minds empty of all that is good; their thoughts and imaginations vain; their words, and works, and actions, and their whole life and conversation; they are not at all to be trusted in for help, by themselves or others. The Targum is, “when Solomon, king of Israel, saw, by the spirit of prophecy, that the kingdom of Rehoboam his son would be divided with Jeroboam, the son of Nebat; and that Jerusalem, and the house of the sanctuary, would be destroyed, and the people of the children of Israel would be carried captive; he said, by his word. Vanity of vanities in this world, vanity of vanities; all that I and my father David have laboured for, all is vanity!”

John Gill, An Exposition of the Old Testament, vol. 4, The Baptist Commentary Series (London: Mathews and Leigh, 1810), 552.

Nonetheless, her family needs prayer. As always, the glorious Gospel is what this world needs to hear or read here.

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