Psalm 27b - One Thing
4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after;
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 enquire in his temple.
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6b therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.
7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice:
have mercy also upon me, and answer me. KJV
The beauty of the Lord...
Who has seen or who can comprehend the beauty of the Lord? As I write this, I'm looking over the Gulf of Mexico, blue skies, white sane, soaring birds and sea oats swaying in the breeze..If you can judge the beauty of the Lord by examining the beauty of His creation, then He is beautiful indeed. The more I grow in my appreciation of the Lord and HIs goodness, the more I am like King David, and desire to spent time in His house and seek after Him. After a few decades of living, nothing else seems to really matter. It's not that I don't appreciate the things that I've been able to do, and the people that I've met along the way, but that will all pass, and only the beauty of the Lord will remain.
"Offer... sacrifices of joy"... What other response can we give? Nothing else matters in the end than seeking the Lord and worshiping His holy name. One of the things I've leaned in my 6 plus decades on this earth, is that one of the main purposes of our time here is to be in choir practice. Done right, all of a Christian's life gives glory to the Lord. It's choir practice for when we will have all eternity to glory in His presence and worship Him in fullness. Oh happy day when we will gather with the hosts of heaven around the throne and join with the cherubim is singing "Holy, Holy, Holy. Holy is the Lord God almighty..."
So in the meantime, I'll "cry with my voice", calling on the Lord's mercy, and try to learn my lessons well so that I will be more able to worship Him in the beauty of holiness. Now we see in part, but one day... !!!
Sons of Korah, Psalm 27 part b
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