DON'T LIKE YOUR LOOKS?

Do you like your looks?  I don't like mine.
And I would bet you don't like your looks
either, unless you are an ego maniac.

Years ago I read how even most actors are
not satisfied with the way they look.  They
would change some little thing or other.
And after all these years I have found
nothing to make me think differently.

It seems to be a problem to all human

beings.  Consider the these statistics.

In the year 2016 world wide there was

61.5  billion U.S. dollars spent on

color cosmetics.   You know, paint,
putty, wood filler or what ever it is
that women use trying to look like
something different.

And we fellows did not do much better.

We spent 48.5 billon dollars on men's
grooming products trying to look better. 

But I noticed something IMPORTANT.

When God came down as a man - Jesus

Christ - so he could die in our place if

we will accept it.  You would think He

would come as the most outstanding person

of all time.  But He did not.  Notice the 

thing of the appearance of Jesus Christ 

in the prophecy given about Him.

"For before him he grew up like a young plant,
like a root out of dry ground.  He was not well-
formed or especially handsome; we saw him,
but his appearance did not attract us.
People despised and avoided him, a man of pains,
well acquainted with illness.  Like someone from
whom people turn their faces, he was despised;
we did not value him."

(Isaiah 53:2,3 CJB)

Did you catch that?
The very one who created the Universe and
gives life to you, when he came to be one of
us, He came as the plainest of the plane people.

Don't you think that we put way to much
emphasis on our outward appearance?

"God sees not as man sees,
for man looks at the outward appearance,
but the LORD looks at the heart."
(1 Samuel 16:7 NASB) 

HELP. I'M UGLY

That's my little old ugly truck.

I must admit, it does not have the words,

"RUST BUCKET" on the sides.

They are only in my computer.

That picture was taken several years ago.

Only the rain has washed it since and the 

rust has grown. A lot people would be ashamed 

to be seen in it because it is so ugly.

But, Hey!  

It is not a trophy.  It is a tool.

It still runs very good and does everything

I want a truck to do.  In short, I'm still

very happy with that ugly old truck and

have no desire what ever for a newer,

nicer truck.

What's the point?

As a person I think of myself as "ugly".

How many a time I have wished that God had

made me different than I am.  There are things

from top to bottom that I would change if it were

up to me.

I have been having a hard time to think that God 

made me the way I am because this is the way that

God wanted me.  (Well! Other than what I as a person

have messed up.  You know.  Over or under eating

or other things that are my fault.)  However, at my

age I am beginning to see the point.

Years ago there used to be a beautiful women come

into the shop with her car.  She was young and usually

when she came in, about half of the guys working 

there found some excuse or other to go by and 

see if they could "help" or what ever.

One day the boss ask me if I would that her to work

the next morning and bring her car back to the shop.

You bet I would.  (I was not in my eighties then.)

When she came early the next morning she happened

to have her kids with her.  And the way she treated her 

kids in the few miles to her work totally turned me off.

Since then, I have seen many a "lovely" lady that I

would not want to put up with as a wife.

One time God was having the prophet Samuel

pick out a king for the nation.  But Samuel was

looking on the outside and God said to him;

"But the Lord said to him,

'Pay no attention to how tall and

handsome he is.  I have rejected him,

because I do not judge as people judge. 

They look at the outward appearance,

but I look at the heart'".

(1 Samuel 16:7 GNT)

I notice something of interest to myself 

regarding the prophecy of God himself

coming down to us in the form of Jesus

Christ.

The prophecy of his coming says,

"He had no dignity or beauty

to make us take notice of him.

There was nothing attractive about

him,

nothing that would draw us to him.

We despised him and rejected him;

he endured suffering and pain.

No one would even look at him -

we ignored him as if he were nothing."

(Isaiah 53:2,3 GNT)

Lets face it.  

When our time has come, it is not a man or

woman that we will stand before in judgment.

It will be God himself.

He is not going to looking at our hair do 

or fake smile.  But at the our heart.

We can do something about our heart

or attitudes.

And it does help to realize that God had a
reason for making me the way I am,
even if it does not suit me.