PART II: You're Pretty
There is something in the human spirit that detests feeling ugly.
We exert much energy and spend a great deal of time and money to fix the things about ourselves that we consider less than attractive. We powder, primp, push-up, pull-down, and cover (or, rather, uncover) whatever we can
to appear our best.
We long to be attractive and beautiful.
This longing is an expression of God’s genius and personality.
A beautiful God created us in such a way that we long to possess beauty.
To be striking and engaging.
Fit and chizzled.
Hot
Cool
Collected
Pretty
Wanted
Loved
Looked at
and
Sexy.
The secular beauty industry has tapped into this longing in the human spirit and exploited it,
creating
frustration
and
self-loathing
each step of the way.
Advertising executives set the unrealistic standards by which we judge others and ourselves. Deceived by the airbrushed, computer-generated models in the magazines, and misled by arbitrarily-defined beauty, many people live frustrated lives, because, according to what we are told and sold, we are failing in the race to be beautiful.
But what does God think?
We've already explored His heart's feelings towards us, but what are His eyes looking at?
One of the many things that makes the true God stand out so far above the false ones is His promise to make us beautiful with His own beauty.
It is an expression of His affection and pleasure.
For the LORD takes pleasure in His people;
He will beautify the humble with salvation.
(Psalm 149:4)
God takes pleasure in you.
God enjoys you.
He looks upon you and is struck by beauty.
That’s a hard concept for many people: a God who takes pleasure in His people. Far from being stoic, His heart is warmed by the very people who come to Him for help. He takes great joy in beautifying them.
God’s beauty in us is a vast subject.
There is physical beauty and spiritual beauty.
There is temporal beauty in this age,
and there is eternal beauty in the age to come.
You will possess physical beauty beyond the angels.
Let there be no doubt: the Godhead is the main celestial attraction, but when He unveils His ultimate plan to present a beautiful Bride to Himself, the angels will gather at the balconies of Heaven and shake their heads in wonder. You will be physically, emotionally and spiritually beautiful forever because of Jesus.
You will have a beautiful face, body, mind and heart. Yes, you will be stunningly beautiful forever.
When God raised Jesus from the dead, He designed a body for Jesus that
was unlike anything ever seen or imagined. It was both physically and spiritually beautiful.
After Jesus was raised from the dead, He had the ability to walk through walls, yet He had the
capacity to enjoy a breakfast of fish with His friends(John 20:26 and 21:12-15).
His glorified body was the perfect melding of the spiritual and physical realms, allowing Jesus to partake of
the best of both worlds.
And He has a body for each of us that is
just
like
His.
Our resurrected bodies will be the best that God can create, unable to be improved upon.
At the Second Coming, Jesus will combine the natural realm
with the supernatural realm (Ephesians 1:10; Revelation 21:1-2).
Our bodies will be made with all the capacities necessary to express the glory and beauty of God in this new environment.He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body, by
the power that enables Him to subject everything to Himself. (Philippians 3:21)
…When He is revealed, we shall be like Him,
for we shall see Him. (1 John 3:2)
Our eternal bodies will have the same supernatural properties
and abilities that Jesus’ body has. For example, Jesus wears garments of beautiful light; therefore, we shall as well.
…Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment… (Psalm 104:2)
So the next time you look in the mirror and see 'ugly.'
Remember.
You're pretty.
Those skinny arms are tempory.
That tummy thats not quite sexy enough, will soon be clothed in light.
That chest that needs pushed up, up-sized, separated, and batted down with skin toner is the perfect and beautiful you.
When we grasp, even a little bit, God's
unyielding
jealous
zealous
love-sick
butterflied
overwhelmed
heart for us, the mirror can only lie to us so much.
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