https://odb.org/2024/07/31/the-beautiful-one
Have you ever experienced a situation where you meet someone who looks normal, but as you get to know him or her, you find that he or she is pretty attractive. That is because as much as beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, it is also skin deep. There is more to a person’s beauty than just his or her appearance. The same way when you hear a preacher preach. Someone with less eloquence and theatrics may deliver a touching sermon because it was inspired by the Holy Spirit and comes from the heart, made more real and meaningful by the vulnerability of his or her real-life experiences.
In Isaiah 53:2,3 (NKJV), it is written:
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of [e]sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
In the NIV, they used the phrase, “He has no beauty or majesty that attract us to Him.” Yet once we discovered the significance of what He did for us, for you and I and the millions before and to come, we see how beautiful Christ is. There is no description of how He really looks like in the Gospels or in the Acts of the Apostles or the letters written by the Apostles who had the privilege to live with Him for those 3 years plus. Perhaps to reinforce the point that His beauty lies in His mission for mankind.
In Isaiah 53:5,6 – Isaiah so beautifully describes His mission:
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes, we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
He enabled us to make peace with Father God and healed the spiritual chasm that separated us from God as God laid on Him the iniquity and sin of all mankind. As the Lamb of God, He was sinless and blameless and that qualified Him to be the perfect sacrifice to atone and redeem the sins of humankind.
Indeed, Jesus Christ is the beautiful one! The most beautiful of all! One day, the day may well be sooner than later, He will return in all His beauty and glory and will take His rightful place as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords here on the earth! Hallowed be Your Name! Hallelujah! Hosanna to the Highest!
Ronnie's Thoughts 