Dear fellow Christian sowing the seed of the Word of the gospel, did you know that you are beautiful to God?
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation…” (Isaiah 52:7)
God delights to see His Son uplifted and glorified, published to those we come in contact with. Those who glorify His Son are beautiful to Him.
Dear sister in Christ, modest and meek, and regardless of your outward form, did you know that you are beautiful to your heavenly Bridegroom?
“but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.” (1 Peter 3:4 ESV)
Is not Jesus our Lord beautiful? Yet we remember the words of Isaiah the prophet:
“For He grew up before Him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him.” (Isaiah 53:2 ESV)
Yet a day is coming when our “eyes will behold the king in His beauty” (Isaiah 33:17 ESV) and we shall look upon the altogether lovely One. He is lovely to us because He loved us and became so low to bring us to Himself. He is lovely, not because of how He looks, but because of who He is and what He has done for us.
May we value the beauty of the eternal over the temporal, the crown of glory over the withering flower of earth (Isaiah 28:5). May our eyes be upon our risen Christ today, as we meditate upon the beauty of His grace, His glory, and His love to ransomed souls such as we!
I challenge my heart today with the words of the Psalmist:
“Whom have I in heaven but Thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee.” (Psalm 73:25)