God’s Beauty and Holiness
The Bible links “beauty” with worshipping God in holiness.
The Bible reveals many of the beautiful qualities of God’s nature. As we come to know God on a personal and intimate basis, we get glimpses of His incredible beauty. His nature is so generous, giving, and genuine we really do find that God Himself is very, very beautiful!
God also loves beauty in His creation and has set out a plan for our relating to Him in worship where He makes us beautiful as we worship Him. He greatly desires that we be beautiful, and He greatly desires that we worship Him as our Lord.
Psalm 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for He is thy Lord; and worship thou Him.
1 Chronicles 16:29 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name: bring an offering, and come before Him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Psalm 29:2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Psalm 96:9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before Him, all the earth.
Our Beauty and Holiness Comes As a Gift From God’s Presence in Our Lives
How do we come to have the holiness and beauty that our King and our Lord is greatly desiring for us?
Such beauty and holiness comes to us as we worship God in Spirit and Truth. We receive those qualities as we devote time to be in God’s presence. People tend to become what they admire and worship. They tend to grow more and more like what they admire.
The true God is beautiful and forever holy. His worshippers will be beautiful and forever holy, also. The beauty of a true believer is a gift of God’s own holiness and beauty upon us. We find this truth in Psalm 90 where the Psalmist (Moses) indicates that the beauty that we can have is actually “the beauty of the Lord our God” that is upon us.
Psalm 90:17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Like all of God’s other special gifts to us, we are to recognize these gifts, acknowledge them, and maintain them. God’s own holiness requires we have it to be in His presence. He is God. He knows exactly how to perfect exactly what He wants. And, He will settle for nothing less than that which He perfects! God’s children will be beautiful and holy as they worship our Beautiful and Holy God.