Psalms 149:4

"For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation."
Psalms 149:4


My favorite book is Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, and this scripture reminds me of that book.  God will beautify the meek... that is such an interesting line.  And it isn't just physical beauty, though that could be part of it, but it is the kind of beauty that soaks in and then radiates out to everyone you know and see.  Christ had beauty like that.  In Isaiah 53 it says he had "no beauty that we should desire him," probably speaking of Christ's physical beauty, but those who could perceive it saw that his beauty was so much deeper and more real than any physical beauty could be.  Exactly the opposite of those he called "whited sepulchres" which were beautiful outside but had rottenness inside (Matthew 23).  I think the essence of the scripture is that God loves us, and no matter how ugly we are, he takes pleasure in us, and will help us to all be beautiful.  ... just like my favorite book, although I think God's message probably takes precedence. :)