Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), former president of Harvard University, had a birthmark on his face that bothered him greatly. As a young man, he was told that surgeons could do nothing to remove it. Someone described that moment as “the dark hour of his soul.” Eliot’s mother gave him this helpful advice: “My son, it is not possible for you to get rid of that hardship…But it is possible for you, with God’s help, to grow a mind and soul so big that people will forget to look at your face.”
Most look at the external, but thank God, there are good number of people that look past that to what really makes a person. Those individuals have been placed here to accept us for what we are and not what we look like. According to Scripture, Jesus wasn’t much to look at.
For He grew up before Him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him.
That’s how I saw Him until He revealed to me exactly who He was. How does He look to you? Give it some thought.
Gary