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BY DAVID
WOETZEL, B.S.
"Give unto the Lord the glory
due unto His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness" (Psalm 29:2).
When King David transported the Ark
of the Covenant to Jerusalem he delivered a special psalm into the hands of
Asaph and the other musicians.
In it he exalted the Lord: "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"
(I
Chronicles 16:29).
Psalm 96:6 discusses this beauty: "Honor and majesty are before Him: strength and beauty are in His
sanctuary."
Verse 9 gives further clarification when it states, "O worship the Lord in the beauty of
holiness: fear before Him, all the earth."
This is not an outward beauty, for the prophet told of
Christ that "when we shall see Him,
there is no beauty that we should desire Him" (Isaiah 53:2).
Rather,
it is a beauty of character . . . an inward righteousness.
It was the searching of this beauty that became David's
life mission: "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
inquire in His temple" (Psalm
27:4).
This
Scriptural phrase occurs again during the reign of King Jehosophat.
The
prophet had predicted a great victory if Israel would just believe and let God
do the fighting.
II Chronicles 20:21-22 records, "And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers
unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out
before the army."
In
glorifying God's beauty Jehosophat enjoyed a tremendous victory.
Still today believers should seek to
meditate upon God's beauty and let it radiate from our lives. "And let the beauty of the Lord our God
be upon us" (Psalm
90:17).
The Institute
for Creation Research (ICR) wants
people to know that God’s Word can be trusted in everything it speaks
about—from how and why we were made, to how the universe was formed, to how we
can know God and receive all He has planned for us.
After
almost 50 years of ministry, ICR remains a leader in scientific research within
the context of biblical creation. Founded by Dr. Henry Morris in 1970, the
institute exists to conduct scientific research within the realms of origins
and Earth history, and then to educate the public both formally and informally
through graduate and professional training programs, through conferences and
seminars around the country, and through books, magazines, and media
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