FRIDAY DECEMBER 5TH : SEEING JESUS

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December 5
Friday


SEEING JESUS

READ:
Isaiah 53:1-6
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He has no form or
comeliness; and when
we see Him there is no
beauty that we should
desire Him.
__Isaiah
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When I was young, I thought I knew exactly what Jesus looked like. After all, I saw Him every day whenever I looked at some pictures in my bedroom. One showed Jesus knocking at a door and the other depicted Him as a Shepherd with His sheep.

What I didn't know was that a mere decade before I was born, those pictures of Jesus didn't exist. Warner Sallman painted the well-known "Head of Christ" and other portraits of Jesus in the 1940's. Those images were just one man's idea of what Jesus might have looked like.

The Bible never gives a physical description of Jesus. Even the men who saw Him every day didn't tell us what He looked like. In fact, the only clue we have is a passage in Isaiah that says: "There is no beauty that we should desire Him" (53:2). It seems that Jesus' human form was deliberately de-emphasized. He looked like an ordinary man. People weren't drawn to Him because of a regal appearance but because of what He said and did and because of the message of love He came to give. (John 3:16).

But the next time Jesus comes to earth, it will be different. When our savior returns, we will recognize Him as the soverign King of kings and Lord of lords! (1 Tim. 6:14-15).

____Cindy Hess Kasper
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The more I see His beauty,~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The more I know His grace,~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The more I long, unhindered,~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~To gaze upon His face. __Anon.~~~~~~~~~
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To see Jesus will be heaven's greatest joy.

**************Today's Bible Reading __ Isaiah 53:1-6**************

1 Who has believed our
report? And to whom has
the arm of the LORD been
revealed? 2 For He shall
grow up before Him as a
tender plant, 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. 3 He is despised
and rejected by men, a Man
of sorrows and acquainted
with grief. And we hid, as it
were, our faces from Him;
he was despised, and we
did not esteem him.

4 surely He has borne our
griefs and carried our
sorrows; yet we esteemed
Him stricken, smitten by
God, and afflicted. 5 But He
was wounded for our
transgressions, he was
bruised for our iniquities;
the chastisement for our
peace was upon Him, and
by His stripes we are
healed. 6 All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have
turned, every one, to his
own way; and the LORD has
laid on Him the iniquity of
us all.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

The book of Isaiah contains more prophecy pointing to Christ than
any other Old Testament book (except perhaps the Psalms). These
prophecies move from His birth (Isa. 7:14; 9:6-7) all the way to His
rule (ch.60). Without question, Isaiah's most graphic prophecy is this
text (53), which describes the suffering of Christ for the sins of
the world. The payment for sin by crucifixion is seen through the eyes
of the ones He would die to redeem. __Bill Crowder