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Saturday, July 07, 2007
Beauty and the Beast
What would have happen to the Beast if the Beauty hadn’t appeared?
You know the story. There was a time when his face was handsome and his palace pleasant. But that was before the curse, before the shadows fell on the heart of the prince. And when darkness fell, he hid. Secluded in his castle, he was left with glistening snout and curly tusks and a bad mood.
But all that changed when the girl came. I wonder, what would have happened to the Beast if the Beauty hadn’t appeared? Better yet, what would have happened if she hadn’t cared? Who would have blamed her if she hadn’t? He was such a … well, such a beast. Hairy. Drooling. Roaring. Defying. And she was such a beauty. Stunningly gorgeous. Contagiously kind. If even two people lived up to their names, didn’t the Beauty and the Beast? Who would have blamed her if she hadn’t care? But she did care.
And because the Beauty loved the Beast, the Beast became more beautiful himself. The story’s familiar, not just because it’s a fairy tale. It’s familiar because it reminds us of ourselves. There is a beast within each of us.
… We are beast. As French essayist Michel de Montaigne said, “ There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve handing ten times in his life.” Our deeds are ugly. Our actions are harsh. We don’t do what we want to do, we don’t like what we do, and what’s worse – yes, there is something worse – we can’t change.
We try, oh, how we try. But “Can a leopard change his spots? In the same way, Jerusalem, you cannot change and do good, because you are accustomed to doing evil” (Jer. 13:23)
… In God’s plan, Jesus was offered wine for his throat, so why not a towel for his face? Simon carried the cross of Jesus, but he didn’t mop the cheek of Jesus. Angels were a prayer away. Couldn’t they have taken the spittle away?
They could have, but Jesus never commanded them to. For some reason, the One who chose the nails also chose the saliva. Along with the spear and the sponge of man, he bore the spit of man. Why? Could it be that he sees the beauty within the beast?
But here the correlation with Beauty and the Beast ends. In the fable, the beauty kisses the beast. In the Bible, the Beauty does much more. He becomes the beast so that the beast can become the beauty. Jesus changes place with us. We, like Adam, were under a curse, but Jesus “changes places with us and put himself under that curse” (Gal. 3:13).
What if the Beauty had not come? What if the beauty had not cared? Then we would have remained a beast. But the Beauty did come, and the Beauty did care.
The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.
Adapted from 'He Chose the Nails - What God did to win your heart' by MAX LUCADO.
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