You’re Beautiful To God
At the end of last year, I had four blogs speaking about our identity from God’s perspective. I thought I could give you four more over the rest of this month.
One night of outrageous romance established two absolutes at Trinity University, Chicago in October 1995. Firstly, from that night on, everyone on that campus knew that there was something someone thought was special about a girl named Megan Huggins. Secondly, everyone knew that some guy named Drew Land was in love with her.
It was 2.30a.m. In one hand I held a box of sidewalk chalk. In the other, a Bible. I went to five different locations on Megan’s university campus – in front of her dorm, behind her dorm, by the entrance to the cafeteria, in front of the main academic building and the chapel. Then, with the sidewalk chalk I wrote in giant-sized letters (each letter was the size of a watermelon) entire verses from the slushiest book of the Bible – Song of Solomon. And above the verses I wrote, “Megan Huggins.” Then below the verses I wrote, “I love you, Drew Land.” So imagine large paragraphs, the length and width of two cars put together, of romantic lyrics addressed to Megan all over a university campus. When Megan woke up that morning, she was instantly famous and I was immediately assured that every guy on that campus got the message that she was taken.
Now many commentators believe that the entire book of Song of Solomon is a picture of Christ and his bride. And if you’re a Christian, then that includes you.
It’s an incredible thing to be chosen as Christ’s bride. But here’s the other incredible thing – he looks at you and thinks you’re beautiful. Read what he says to you in Song of Solomon:
“How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful!” (4:1).
And he didn’t write those words in sidewalk chalk that would be washed away in the next rain. He didn’t write them in a small university where a few hundred people could see. No. Instead he wrote it in blood, displayed before the entire world. And in so doing he established two absolutes. Firstly, that someone thought that there was something pretty special about you. And secondly, that someone named Jesus was in love with you.
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