Foolish Beauty

Fellow Labourers-

As I read Foolish Beauty I am reminded that there is a vast difference between bodybuilding and weight training. Usian Bolt does weight training to increase is capacity and strength with an end in mind. He wants to run faster than everybody else and to avoid injury. Bodybuilders pump weights to maximally develop every muscle in the body to show it off. What is the purpose of your faith? Having real faith like physical therapy may be painful. Somebody once observed that "The church is a place of rehabilitation, not convalescence. It is not a hospice that prepares people to die; it is a rehab center preparing people to live."

The prophet Isaiah told us that when we see Jesus there would be no beauty in him that we should desire him.Yet, paradoxically we find the beauty of living in the fact that he was wounded for our transgression, bruised for our iniquity, and the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we were healed. As we read through the parallelisms, oxymorons, and paradoxes of Scripture, we find our hope in this foolish beauty. Listen to these striking contradictions we hear daily. I don't believe in God, and God knows. I don't believe in absolutes, and I believe that absolutely. It is very hard to ignore God, there is a beauty outside and within that we can't avoid.

Pax Vobiscum

Robert Stewart