Lent 38...beautiful people

I'm at the airport. People watching. There are hundreds of people here and from what I've seen so far none of them are beautiful. The folk in Newcastle airport today are pretty average. Short and tall, skinny and fat, blonde and brunette, beards,glasses,suits,jeans. All colours. Hardly any stand out. One guy has just walked past in a tracksuit so tight fitting that he looks a bit ridiculous. A middle aged couple....he just kissed her hand. Awww. But mostly these hundreds are entirely unremarkable.

Of course they are not unremarkable to their family, friends loved ones. To them they are special. And what makes them special is not how they look or what they wear. It's who they are.

So why do we as a culture put such a stupidly high value on appearance??  Why do we seek out the one beautiful person in a million and put them on billboards to sell us stuff?  Why do we spend billions on cosmetics and fashion and shoes when they really make us look absolutely no different from the next guy??  Why can't we be happy being average??

Jesus was the most attractive man who ever walked the earth.  But the Bible tells us that He was nothing much to look at.    He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. Is 53:2    He didn't stand out from the crowd.  He wasnt a poster pin up.  He was entirely average on the outside.  What made Him the most beautiful person who ever lived was His heart. 

I genuinely believe that God is so sad when we compare and are dissatisfied and spend and have surgery trying to make ourselves somehow more beautiful.  He loves us. Our insides and our outsides.  But our insides are so much more important to God .  Maybe they should be for us too.