Man of Sorrows

There is no aesethic beauty in Jesus Christ, the Man of Sorrows.

If we were looking for someone who would catch the eye, we would look beyond the Suffering Servant. There was no external beauty that we should behold him (Isa 53:2). We turned our faces away at His appearance, marred more than any other man (Isa 52:14). Had we beheld him truly, had we gazed intently on His figure and face, there would have been nothing left to look at. We tried to make out a man, but there was only a mash of blood and hair and puss attached to a broken head that sat atop a crippled body. He had became mischath; disfigured, destroyed, and ruined. In short, the prophet Isaiah says that the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, was an eyesore.

He was the one from whom we hid our faces (Isa 53:3). Jesus Christ would not make the cover of any modern magazine.

As the post-modern church advances towards what I would call a neo-iconodulism (or a new use of visual images in worship), I think it's time to rethink our stance on an issue that divided the Church now almost 1000 years ago. Should we not remember that with the Lord, that this is only a day?