We Could Question Beauty
What’s beautiful?
What’s ugly?
If you want to figure out what the beautiful things in life are…. maybe if you want to act prophetically and point to what’s beautiful and what’s counterbeautiful….you could question beauty.
Beauty, simply put, is the quality in something that elicits satisfaction and pleasure.
Beauty has a lot of trappings laid upon it. It can easily devolve into lust, infatuation, or pride.
Beauty, with a Godward direction, is the breaking through of all that’s good and wonderful. It is that satisfying and pleasurable knowledge, understanding, and/or feeling that all is as it should be.
Is this what it means for God to look at the Creation and call it good?
Maybe we could question beauty.
We could look at our lives, and the lives of those around us, and the lives of those in our city (and on and on..), and we could question beauty.
Beautiful?
Counterbeautiful?
Is the beauty of God breaking through?
Or is it counterfeited, sabotaged, and shattered?
We could question beauty. And then we could cultivate, steward, and even create it. We could point to it and exhort it.
We must make Godward beauty a pursuit of our hearts.
