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Beauty
“When we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him” (Isaiah 53:2).
“Behold the beauty of the Lord” (Psalm 27:4).
As first glance these two verse seem to contradict one another. However, when we meditate on them and take them in their proper context, we soon realize it is not so. The first one is true of the natural man who sees nothing of worth in the person of Christ. The second is the spiritual man, whose eyes have been opened, by the grace of God, to see beauty in the Lord Jesus. The Apostle John, having seen and walked with the Lord Jesus while He was here on earth, summed it up in this way: “We beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).
There is a future day too, of which we read, “Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty” (Isaiah 33:17). What a day that will be, not only for us, but for Israel and the whole world. No longer the despised Man of lowliness and grace, but the King in His power and glory.
In the meantime, let’s be occupied with, and enjoy something of His beauties today.
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