"IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER"

"Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." (Isa.53:1-2)

The Jesus of scripture is not one that appeals to the natural eye. He is not attractive to the flesh. He was not one who, physically, would have stood out in a crowd. He is not esteemed as one worthy of notice or praise.

But, to the spiritual eye he is the lily of the valley and the fairest of ten thousand! He is more to be desired than rubies or the finest things that this world has to offer.

To the world his message is foolishness and a stumblingblock but to the quickened he has the words of eternal life.

The Jesus of scripture is still looked upon with disdain in the eyes of this world but in the eyes of his own he is all-together lovely!

Though I have not seen him with the physical eye, by the grace of God I have seen him with the eye of faith and as Peter writes....."Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:" (1Pet.1:8)