And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him." v.2
Read chapter 53
Christ wasn't this attractive prince charming. He wasn't the guy all girls wanted to marry and all guys wanted to become. It wasn't His outer appearance that drew men to Him, but was because He was God and perfect Truth.
Naturally a shoot springing in a dry ground would show but little beauty of foliage or flower. It would be starved and colourless beside the gaudy growths in fertile, well-watered gardens. But that unattractiveness is not absolute or real; it is only ‘that we should desire Him.’ We are but poor judges of true ‘form or comeliness,’ and what is lustrous with perfect beauty in God’s eyes may be, and generally is, plain and dowdy in men’s. Our tastes are debased. Flaunting vulgarities and self-assertive ugliness captivate vulgar eyes, to which the serene beauties of mere goodness seem insipid. (BibleHub.com Commentary).
What has attracted you to follow Christ?
Let us not follow outward appearances of others or ourselves and remember Christ wasn't attractive to this world, so why should we be?
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