一百三十多年來，高聳入雲的艾菲爾鐵塔一直矗立在巴黎市中心，它已成為法國建築界輝煌與美麗的象徵。這個城市自豪地宣稱，這座鐵塔就是當地最宏偉的地標。

然而，當這座鐵塔還在建造時，許多人卻不以為然。法國著名作家莫泊桑（Guy de Maupassant）就曾嘲諷地說，這座塔的外形可笑，就像工廠的煙囪一樣，有什麼美？有什麼好？

美好是由外在形象決定的嗎？在我們這些愛耶穌並接受祂為救主的人心中，耶穌是美好的，這乃是因為祂的本質，以及祂為我們所做的一切。但先知以賽亞說﹕「祂沒有佳形，也沒有威儀，好叫我們仰慕祂；祂也沒有美貌，使我們被祂吸引。」（以賽亞書53章2節，新譯本）

然而，祂為我們所做的一切是何等偉大，更是人類所能認識和體驗到最真實、最純潔的美。祂「擔當我們的憂患，背負我們的痛苦」（4節），「為我們的過犯受害，為我們的罪孽壓傷。因祂受的刑罰，我們得平安；因祂受的鞭傷，我們得醫治」（5節）。

有誰能像救主那樣美好，那麼威嚴，甘願為你我被釘死在十字架上，親自為了全人類的罪，承受那難以言喻的刑罰呢？

唯有耶穌，祂是美好的救主。讓我們今天就仰望祂，為祂而活！

For more than 130 years, the Eiffel Tower has stood majestically over the city of Paris, a symbol of architectural brilliance and beauty. The city proudly promotes the tower as a key element of its magnificence.

As it was being built, however, many people thought little of it. Famous French writer Guy de Maupassant, for example, said it had “a ridiculous thin shape like a factory chimney.” He couldn’t see its beauty.

Those of us who love Jesus and have entrusted our hearts to Him as our Savior count Him as beautiful for who He is and what He’s done for us. Yet the prophet Isaiah penned these words: “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him” (53:2).

But the towering majesty of what He did for us is the truest, purest form of beauty that humans will ever know and experience. He “took up our pain and bore our suffering” (v. 4). He was “pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed” (v. 5).

We’ll never know anyone as beautiful—as majestic—as the one who suffered for us on the cross, taking the unspeakable punishment of our sins upon Himself.

That’s Jesus. The Beautiful One. Let’s look to Him and live.