Strangers At My Mother-in-Law’s

Two strangers recently arrived at my mother-in-law’s, decided to make themselves really comfortable and stayed for good.

Both are Caucasians, blonde, and rather tall.

The man’s quite pleasing to the eye, and the woman, whom the man claimed to be his mother, looked young and couldn’t have been older than 25 years of age.

I must admit that though they intruded without as much as asking permission of my mother-in-law in any way, they are rather good guests. Their business was love, they claimed, and all they needed was a wall to hang themselves on.

You probably are puzzled by the last sentence, so let me clear the air and introduce you to “Jesus” and “Mary”.

You see, my mother-in-law is Roman Catholic, and she has this rather big picture of both “Jesus” and “Mary” side by side on some kind of cloth mural now hanging in the living room just above the sofa.

It always amuses me greatly to read reports of people discovering Jesus’ or Mary’s likeness in tomatoes, on fences, in the clouds, and everywhere else imaginable.

Because there’s no way these people could have known what our Lord Jesus Christ looks like. Those images might just as well have been likenesses of some blonde, long-haired man down the road, in Seattle or just about anywhere in the Western hemisphere.

However, thanks to the Roman Catholic Church and her deliberate omission of the second of the Ten Commandments in the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church (thus necessitating the split of the last commandment into two), Roman Catholics all over the world are sinning and calling some strange man “Lord” without even realizing it!

So what might our Lord Jesus Christ have looked like?

For one, He would look like any other Jew at that time, and wouldn’t have long hair. For certainly the Apostle Paul would not have deemed his Lord and Savior to be shameful!

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,

1 Corinthians 11:14

Secondly, Christ Jesus would have had rather olive skin having been a carpenter and working under the sun for years until the commencement of His ministry on earth. It will, therefore, not be a far-fetched idea if we were to picture Him as a rather well-built man with olive skin.

The Old Testament also tells us that our Lord Jesus Christ would have been rather ordinary in looks, thus allowing Him to quickly blend in and slip away on several occasions during His ministry.

For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.

Isaiah 53:2

Just imagine how easy it would be to spot and stop our Lord from retreating from the crowds if He was a tall, thin blonde man with long locks among the crowd of olive-skinned Jews and Mediterranean people!

And, finally, what did Jesus Christ look like?

For that nobody has an answer. Even the above descriptions of some of the physical attributes that our Lord might have are based on pure speculation.

What we do know, at the end of the day, is that it doesn’t matter what our Lord Jesus Christ might have looked like as a man during His ministry on earth.

Jesus Christ is risen and He IS God. And as God, our Lord Jesus Christ is to be worshipped in spirit.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

John 4:24

Shabbat Shalom.