Isaiah 53: 1 – 6
Okay, a quick show of hands.
What does Jesus look like?
The truth is we really don't know. All those pictures we see of him every day on the walls of a church like Jesus knocking on the door, or Jesus praying at a rock, or even Jesus with the little children, those images that are burned into our minds were painted in the 40's.
Even the people who were with him every day, didn't take the time to tell us what he looked like.
The only clues that we have come from the book of Isaiah.
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
To me, that doesn't sound like what I would expect to find in the King of kings.
Did you ever watch the lost in space episode where two aliens land on the planet that the Robinson's are stranded, one was very handsome while the other was quite ugly?
Everyone thought that the handsome one was filled with truth, honesty, and power, and the other evil. Just because of the way they looked. Yet in the end, the reverse was true. The ugly one was good and the handsome one was the evil bad guy.
That's the problem with us as a race. We judge people by their looks, and we are attracted to pretty people and have a tendency to follow them, just look at our latest presidential election. McCain was described constantly as old, while Obama was said to be the coolest guy at the party.
So, what does God do? He sends His Son to us so that we will be attracted by the message He brings, not His outward appearance.
But, the next time Jesus comes, there will be no doubt. He will return as the sovereign King of kings and Lord of lords.
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