Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through my splendor, which I had bestowed on you. —Ezekiel 16:14
In The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis imagines a man who gets to visit both heaven and hell before he dies. While in heaven, the man sees a radiant woman and is transfixed by “the unbearable beauty of her face.” 1 He learns that this woman was not famous or important on earth—she simply loved people out of the overflow of her life in Christ, and it resulted in a breathtaking eternal beauty.
We’re on the cusp of eternity—and with it, eternal beauty that will require us to have resurrected bodies to bear its magnitude. It’s a beauty that was bought by the blood of Jesus, a beauty that can never be spoiled. It’s the fulfilled beauty of Ezekiel 16.
The momentary wrinkles and lines of our faces remind us that this life is vanishing like a mist (James 4:14) but infinite beauty face-to-face with Jesus is almost here.
1 C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (Harper Collins, 2001), 118.
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“My Face in His Hands: Aging for the Good of Others” (Colleen Chao, ReviveOurHearts.com/blog)
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
What does it look like to invest in eternal beauty rather than temporary appearances in your daily life?