Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

A while back I wore one of my Texas Aggie shirts to church. I started my college career there, and I am still a long-suffering Aggie fan. Another member, who is not a fan, jokingly said, “That’s the ugliest shirt I’ve ever seen!”  I replied, “Jesus looks at me and thinks I’m beautiful.”

I’m not trying to say God is an Aggie fan. I don’t think He cares that much about which teams win sporting events. But I was dead serious when I said that God sees me as a thing of beauty. That has nothing to do with what I am wearing or my physical appearance. Nor does it have anything to do with me personally. It has everything to do with the one I put my faith and confidence in, namely Jesus.

Isaiah 61:10  I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

That robe comes from what Jesus did for me through His life and death and resurrection.

1 John 1:7–9 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

His righteousness covers my unrighteousness. That makes all who trust in Him a thing of beauty.