Picture This!!!

Today we observed communion at church. I've observed communion many times before. Sometimes I've been impacted but sometimes I haven't. Today, during communion there was a video playing that showed different pictures of Jesus on it. That got me to thinking because really, no one knows what Jesus really looks like yet, remarkably, most of the pictures that were on the screen were very similar in nature eventhough I'm sure most of the pictures were drawn by different people. The pictures portrayed Jesus coming from many different ethnic backgrounds. There was east asian, middle-eastern, caucasian, african-american, native american and I'm sure there were more but those were the ones I noticed. Honestly I suppose I was a tad annoyed because the majority of the portrayals of Jesus were caucasian. I remember going to churches growing up and seeing pictures of caucasian Jesus'. Even in predominantly black churches.
I wonder how we got this mainstream picture of what Jesus looks like. According to the Bible, of the last people that saw Jesus on this earth, one group of people didn't recognize him and they were the ones that spent just about every waking moment with him. Another person was so completely overwhelmed by the irrefutable light of him that he was blinded for a few days. Another was so disturbed by him that we fell facedown and eventually wrote a book about it. According to Isaiah 53, " He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
Nothing against all of the artist's renderings of Jesus but I sure hope they are all wrong. I sure hope that when I behold Jesus' face for the first time I will not be able to take my eyes off Him because I will be so much drawn to Him than I am now. If it's anything like John's description on the Isle of Patmos, I and others like me will be in for a real treat. What a glorious day that will be.