Paul enjoins that, "whatsoever things are lovely" shall be in the vision of life, into which we aim to fashion our character.
We are to follow in the footsteps of our Master. Jesus Himself was, "Altogether lovely!" (Song of Songs 5:16)
Humanity was made to be beautiful. God's ideal for man was spotless loveliness; man was made at first, in God's image. But sin has left its foul trail everywhere! We see something of its debasement wherever we go. What ruins sin has wrought!
All of Christ's work of grace, is towards the restoration of the beauty of the Lord in His people.
Spiritual beauty is holiness. Nothing unclean is lovely.
Character is Christ-like, only when it is beautiful.
All the precepts of the Bible are towards the fashioning of beauty in every redeemed life. We are to put away all that is sinful,
all marring,
every blot and blemish,
every unholy desire, feeling and affection,
everything that would defile- and put on whatsoever is lovely and Christ-like.
The one great work of Christ in Christian lives, is the fashioning of holiness in them. We are to grow away from our deformities,
our faults,
our infirmities,
our poor dwarfed stunted life into spiritual beauty!
[J.R. Miller]
1 John 3:2-3 ... Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
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