Come and pray.
When I was young, I thought I knew exactly what Jesus looked like. After all, I saw Him every day whenever I looked at some pictures in my bedroom. One showed Jesus knocking at a door and the other depicted Him as a Shepherd with His sheep.
What I didnt know was that a mere decade before I was born, those pictures of Jesus didnt exist. Warner Sallman painted the well-known Head of Christ and other portraits of Jesus in the 1940s. Those images were just one mans idea of what Jesus might have looked like.
The Bible never gives a physical description of Jesus. Even the men who saw Him every day didnt tell us what He looked like. In fact, the only clue we have is a passage in Isaiah that says: There is no beauty that we should desire Him (53:2). It seems that Jesus human form was deliberately de-emphasized. He looked like an ordinary man. People werent drawn to Him because of a regal appearance but because of what He said and did and because of the message of love He came to give (John 3:16).
But the next time Jesus comes to earth, it will be different. When our Savior returns, we will recognize Him as the sovereign King of kings and Lord of lords! (1 Tim. 6:14-15).
I join in prayer for President Bush, the Administration and our heroes standing in harm’s way!