Monday, March 10, 2008

The attractiveness of the Gospel

For my Bible study this last week we have been studying Philippians 2:5-11. We are looking at what Christ was like before he was man and how and why he humbled Himself when He came to earth. Today I was reading Isaiah 53 and looking at how He humbled Himself. I had never really thought of Jesus being unattractive before. You see the artist rendition of Jesus all the time and he is a good looking man. Verse 2&3 give us a very different picture. It doesn't say he was "ugly" but it does say would not be attracted to Him and was "one from whom men would hide their face." Being unattractive was one way Jesus humbled Himself. The gospel was unattractive. What do we do with the gospel these days? Seems like we try every thing we can to make it attractive to the world. The scripture says that Jesus was no Joel Osteen. PTL! He was not charismatic and appealing to the world. When we try and make the gospel appealing are we going against the nature of Jesus? It's the Holy Spirit that makes the gospel attractive, not our efforts.
Just something that really made me stop and think today.

1 comment:

lisatatj said...

That's really cool thoughts (HARD)...i have been pondering that passage alot lately, and i didn't think of that...

Yes, ptl...Jesus can't be compared to certain men of our day!