"He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him." Isaiah 53:2
Is it odd that Jesus' birth was announced with angels appearing out of nowhere, a bright glowing star in the sky, and shepherds and wise guys running in from all over the place...all leading to the "Son of God" being found in a dirty ole cave? Is this odd? Wouldn't you think that such a HUGE announcement would at least be able to make a reservation at the Motel 6? Although the message of His birth was brilliant and majestic, Jesus was not. There was nothing beautiful about Him.
This says more about "us" than it does "Him."
We see beauty as something to be desired...we want it in our mates, in ourselves, and in everything we do. Nobody sets out to marry the ugliest girl they can find, we want beauty! There are two major issues with this mindset....
1. Our image of beauty changes...what was beautiful 15 years ago is out of date and hideous now. When was the last time you saw a lady rocking the beehive hairdo and you turned to check out how hot it was?
2. Beauty creates infatuation...the human mind is so easily confused. We can rarely distinguish between a healthy relation and infatuation. We confuse lust for love and too many times our zeal for another fades with their beauty.
God's plan for salvation takes the human nature concerning beauty out of the equation. Had Jesus come as beautiful and majestic as He really is...we would have become infatuated with His beauty. When life got ugly we would be guilty of seeking beauty in something new (don't believe it? look at marriage stats).
Jesus came not to impress us with His beauty but to impress upon us our need for a Savior.
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