“The most powerful weapon for silencing the mouth of the world is not brilliant theological apologetics, but the practice of a holy life that resembles Jesus Christ.” “Now it happened, as Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’ But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. Then He answered them, saying, ‘Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?’ And they could not answer Him regarding these things” (Luke 14:1–6). (1) As I meditated on today’s passage, Luke 14:1–6, the phrase that first caught my attention was: “they were watching Him clos...
In our sight, there was
nothing about Jesus that would attract us to him.
“For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root
out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look
upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him"
(Isaiah 53:2).
To us, Jesus appeared without elegance or majesty; nothing about his appearance made him desirable. In today's terms, we might say Jesus lacked any charm, so we paid him no attention. But this was only in our sight. How then does Father God see Jesus?
In Father God's sight, Jesus is beautiful. Why is Jesus beautiful to God? Because Jesus obeyed God's will, even to the point of dying on the cross (Philippians 2:8). Therefore, the obedient Son, Jesus, is beautiful in the eyes of God the Father.
The beauty of Jesus' disciples lies in obeying the Lord's words. Though we may appear weak and lacking in worldly charm, our beauty before God lies in our obedience to the Lord's words. Even as we face
persecution in this world, like Jesus, we can draw strength from God's comfort, living in obedience to His will. Although outwardly we may not seem appealing to the world, as disciples of Jesus, we should pursue inner beauty. Apostle Peter admonishes in 1 Peter 3:3-4, "Don’t be concerned about the outward
beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God."
May we cultivate the inner person of great value before God, striving to be beautiful in His sight through
obedience.
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