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Isaiah 53:2 New International Version (NIV)
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
The above bible passage, from the Old Testament, foretells hat there will be nothing in Jesus's physical appearance that we wwill find attractive nor enticing.
This is starkly in contrast to today: Physical appearance is the strong focus in society, fuelled by constant advertisements promoting mainly facial perfection and then clothing. Daily we are bombarded with ways of changing or enhancing our faces and bodies:
It is a shame that inner beauty is not promoted as it is true that beauty is only skin deep.
Looking at some elderly people, you cannot tell that in their youth they were beautiful or handsome. However, what one can sometimes tell, from their faces, the kind of life they had, lived and what they were like. Hence it is said that an elderly person sometimes has the face they deserve: Sometimes the hardships of their life's experiences are manifested in angry, bitter-spouting behaviours: They have lived without Christ, doing everything in their own strength.
They have borne the stresses, strains, worries and feelings of guilt - real or false.
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