God is Beautiful!
This picture is from a trip my husband and I took in the Fall of 2025 to Banff, Alberta, Canada in the Canadian Rockies. It is one of the most beautiful places on earth I have ever seen. The beauty of God’s creation is overwhelming here. The beauty of His creation displays His glory. Psalm 19:1 says:
The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
But the beauty of His creation is nothing compared to God’s own beauty. His creation merely reflects His intrinsic beauty, because His creation flows out of who He is, the Creator of all. King David was captivated by God’s beauty. David speaks of God’s beauty in Psalms 27:4 New American Standard Bible.
One thing have I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple.
Like David, we are meant to BEHOLD God’s beauty. Behold H2372 in Hebrew means “to see, behold, see as a seer in the ecstatic state, gaze, perceive, contemplate.” If we contemplate something, we spend time thinking about it. We don’t just look at God’s beauty and move on; we stay for a while, gazing, enjoying the comprehensiveness, the vastness, the overwhelming completeness of His beauty. Think of a bride and groom gazing into each other’s eyes. Nothing can remove their gaze from one another. Beholding God’s beauty takes focus, purpose, determination, fixing our gaze on Him. When we contemplate His beauty, we become ECSTATIC about it! Isaiah 33:17 says
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty.
God’s beauty is everlasting. Humans grow old, get wrinkles, lose strength as they age (well, most of us). Our beauty fades. To be honest, I do prefer the way I looked when I was 30 over now at 64, but it’s ok. God looks at my quiet, gentle spirit as most beautiful, and I know I am beautiful to Him. And my husband still thinks I’m beautiful. Our beauty fades but God’s eternal beauty never fades; it remains resplendent forever (Psalm 90:2).
God’s beauty is unsearchable. We could gaze at His beauty forever and never come to the end of it. Around His throne four living creatures with eyes all around cry out, “Holy, Holy, Holy!” day and night (Revelation 4:8). To be honest, I’m a little jealous of them! My guess is that because they have so many eyes, they perceive more of His beauty and are so overwhelemd that they cannot stop saying Holy for even a moment (the Bible says they say it day and night, i.e. ALL THE TIME!). And in Job 11:7, Job said:
Can you fathom the mysteries of God?
Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
God’s beauty is limitless. Limits means “the end, completion, perfection.” Probing is to search out something. So if we try to search out God, we will never come to the end of our search, because God is unsearchable and so is His beauty. And God’s Son also reflects His beauty. In Hebrews 1:3 we read about Jesus:
And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high…
God’s beauty is reflected in His Son. Jesus is RADIANT! He is BEAUTIFUL! Radiance G541 in Greek means “reflected brightness, of Christ in that He prefectly reflects the majesty of God, shining forth, of a light coming from a luminous body.” Yes, Christ reflects God’s majesty. We could behold Jesus’ radiant beauty for all eternity and never get tired of it. In fact, we will join with the four creature’s and every created living thing in heaven, on and under the earth, and on the sea, and give glory to the Lamb, saying “blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever” (Revelation 5:13).
So moms, don’t forget to take time to
GAZE AT HIS BEAUTY AND ENJOY JESUS’ RADIANCE!
In His Love,
Suzanne
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