Looks Aren’t Everything

When they say the image on the Shroud of Turin is Jesus, I think—Wow, He wasn’t very attractive. But then…

I didn’t fall in love with His face. Looks aren’t everything.

What attracts me to Jesus is His unfailing love. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever experienced.

This is why I write—to magnify Christ’s awesome beauty, so others too will fall in love with Him.

It’s a humbling endeavor to try and describe the Maker of the Universe. Songwriter Mark Altrogge agrees…

You are beautiful beyond description
Too marvelous for words
Too wonderful for comprehension
Like nothing ever seen or heard
Who can grasp Your infinite wisdom?
Who can fathom the depth of Your love?
You are beautiful beyond description
Majesty, enthroned above

Long before Christ’s birth, the prophet Isaiah caught a glimpse of His beauty. He describes Jesus as a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, despised and rejected by man. He also says Christ had …

“no beauty that we should desire him.” Isaiah‬ ‭53‬:‭2‬ ‭

In a world that idolizes good looking people, God chose to show up as an undesirable, unattractive man. Where we tend to admire the outward appearance—God admires the heart—and there is no heart more beautiful than Christ’s.

To think that God wants to put this beautiful heart of Jesus inside you and me is mind-boggling. His heart in us makes us beautiful. To be transformed into the image of Christ is God’s ultimate purpose for His kids.

Imagine a nation where every citizen possesses the beautiful heart of Jesus. Can you picture a people who go around all day doing good, looking for ways to be a blessing to each other?

That’s the Kingdom of God!

Do you see why I keep magnifying the beauty of Jesus through my writing? How can I not? My grandson Boone said it best …

“Papa, we indeed HAVE to tell the world …not necessarily out of duty, but because love like His DEMANDS to be shared.”

That’s right, Boone. Jesus is too good and too beautiful to keep to ourselves!

“O magnify the Lord with me” Psalm 34:3