Outward Beauty from an Inner Life II

One of God’s attributes is beauty, Scripture tells us.  There is an ultimate source of beauty – the character of God.  George Mueller asked, “Are you able to say, from acquaintance you have made with God, that He is a lovely Being?  If not, let me affectionately entreat you to ask God to bring you to this, that you may admire His gentleness and kindness, that you may be able to say how good He is, and what a delight it is to the heart of God to do good to His children.”

Isaiah 28:5  in that day the Lord of hosts will be for a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of His people.

Ps 27:4 One thing I have desired of the Lord, that I will seek…to behold the beauty of the Lord.

Ps 90:17  And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

God is highly concerned about that which is beautiful, particularly in His people.


So the King will greatly desire your beauty; because He is your Lord, worship Him.  Ps. 45:11

Give unto the Lord the glory due His Name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.  Ps 29:2

Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness… Ps 96:9 

We see two powerful and piercing things in these Scriptures:  first, beauty resides in God and in his holiness.  He is a mighty and thundering God, but He is a God who is beautiful; secondly, He has taken great pains and delight to create stunning beauty all around us, and in each one of us.  And thirdly, He himself loves beauty and desires to behold it.  He desires to behold it IN US, and He has defined, described what He thinks beauty IN US looks like:  a gentle and quiet spirit.  He is not immune to the charms of this, for this is His love language from women; it is how He created them to be:  it says here He finds this what?  VERY PRECIOUS.