"He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him" (–i.e. on THAT basis–) (Isaiah 53:2)
The Almighty made sure that there were no distractions to work through to get to the core of who He is. Our Heavenly Father did it with deliberateness in crafting the man-visible Messiah, via His incarnation, and apparently allowed it in the great majority of us, assuredly for the benefit of other gains to our souls and to His kingdom body, as a whole.
Our current earthly existence (and the Savior’s years living on it, two thousand and some years ago) is not the chapter of glorification, but rather of humility. This is the donkey chapter; the white steed in comes later. The whole creation waits "to see the sons of God (blindingly and spectacularly ) revealed!" (Romans 8). This is the "covered glory" chapter – the UN-covering, (the slight tweak of the cheek and nose into perfection, the tweak of the character into holiness), shall assuredly yet BE! "They who looked to him were RADIANT." " And those who waited for him will not be ashamed."
My mother used to tell me about ANY shortcomings in ourselves – "Remember, people care more about their OWN headache, than if you actually DIE!!!" And I've noted through the years, that EXCEPTIONAL personal beauty (and it IS the exception) is important only in the initial ten-second introduction of people and even then is quickly eclipsed in ALL people, immediately by the personhood pumping forth BEHIND the edifice. People are first and last drawn to the emanation of love, ALONE.
