Compassionate . . . powerful . . . wise . . . patient . . .
These lovely attributes belong to God, and we see them, but we seldom turn our regard to His beauty.
We see and appreciate and admire, greatly admire, His creation, but HIS BEAUTY … let’s make it our constant aim to see Him as He is, and He is beautiful.
On earth, the prophet Isaiah tells us that Jesus was not the most handsome, eye-catching of men.
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“For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form or comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.” (Isaiah 53:2) |
We don’t imagine that, even in heaven, we will be above all impressed with how “good looking” He is, when we are at last face-to-face with His power and wisdom and goodness and love, but we won’t be unimpressed, either! Oh, no! He is BEAUTIFUL, and with all else that will take our breath away, we will see His beauty.
We might say that His goodness and mercy and wisdom and strength and love are BEAUTIFUL, and indeed they are, but considering that He made all that we see that is of surpassing beauty on the earth, all His beautiful attributes will be matched by His . . . beauty . . . His handsomeness . . . His “comeliness.”
What would it be, here in Cor Unum, to seek and to see the “beauty of the Lord” as it is revealed to us, today?
It’s a lovely challenge.
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