Beauty of Christ
Beauty is often not what first draws us to Christ.
Desperation, torment, lostness, condemnation, sickness … but not beauty.
The beauty of Christ becomes apparent when you linger with Him.
You enter the tent of meeting and there discover the Christ of Beauty
Hidden, inward beauty.
There Christ arrests you with His splendour and radiance.
The casual enquirer does not see it. With the heightened powers of observation that come with a soul at rest,
The inward dust settles, the noise silences and you see the exquisite beauty of the First Born over All Creation.
His beauty arrests you, handcuffs you, the fists of beauty grip you.
You do not leave that place unchanged.
Wisdom personified, the symmetry of perfect peace.
The sound of harmony and the justice of pure order all wrapped into One Being, into Beauty itself.
Lament is the language of suffering and art is the language of beauty.
Both languages converge on the cross to communicate
The ultimate combined expression of greatest suffering and greatest beauty – divine love.
Beauty communicates love. Love and beauty have always belonged together.
Beauty submits to love like a submissive wife to her loving husband.
Beauty cannot be proud, it is always humble but confident.
Christ is the pure definition of Beauty. Incarnated, transfigured, ascended Beauty.
Love made visible. Breathtaking Beauty.
Beauty is His Holiness made visible to our spiritual eyes.
His Beauty disarms you, arrests you, takes you captive to be His evangelist and servant and bondslave.
Beauty takes no prisoners. Beauty slays you.
The Beauty of Christ is an act of war on all that his corrupt, dark and dying.
His incorruptible transfigured beauty swallows up all the combined ugliness of mankind.
The Beauty of Christ militates against the ugliness, stench and defilement of Satan.
It’s not a sterile surgical beauty, its beauty found in gutters and palaces alike.
Its Messianic Beauty, its lowly of heart, near the down trodden, close to any with a contrite heart.
The Beauty of His Holiness overcomes all the ugliness of all sin.
Christ makes everything beautiful in its time. Beauty itself converts the ugly to the beautiful.
The Incarnation changed fallen flesh forever, if you only believe!
The Beauty of Christ utterly dominates the profane, the lewd, the stench of hell.
Christ’s victory over the ugliness of sinfulness is absolute.
Militant beauty destroys ugly.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time”