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The Beauty of Holiness
Sharon - Savour of Salt
I got up this morning with these words running through
my mind…
‘worship
the LORD in the beauty of holiness.’
So I looked it up and found it in three places
including Psalm 29 which is a beautiful psalm.
It starts with a command, centres on the power of
God’s voice and ends with a promise.
David begins by saying… ’Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto
the LORD glory and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name…’
What does it mean to give ‘glory’ to God?
This Hebrew word – kabowd – also means honour and
abundance.
Do we glorify God in our day to day life, in the
mundane? Do we honour Him in all we do?
Do we give the abundance due to his name?
This word abundance really struck me, so I looked it
up in the dictionary and it means a copious quantity, lavishness, exuberance!
Do we give to the Lord in a lavish, exuberant way? Do
we give Him our joyful praises? Do we thank Him with exuberance?
Do we daily give Him the abundance of our hearts, our
desires and our love? Are we lavish in the time we give to God?
Even when we’re in the middle of doing our daily tasks
are we doing it for Him?
Do we daily give of our all to the One who gave His
life for us? How far short I often fall!
David goes on to say…
‘worship
the Lord in the beauty of holiness’.
Beauty – hadarah – also means adornment and holiness –
qodesh – also means set apartness.
Is this how we worship? Is this how we live our lives?
Adorned with a beautiful set apartness?
Set apart for Our God alone?
What a precious place to be and I think we do know it
at times but how soon we get distracted, our thoughts and desires running here,
there and everywhere but God.
But God can help us to keep close to Him, for He is
all powerful.
Let’s just look at how the psalm continues…
‘The
voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is
upon many waters. The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is
full of majesty.’
Just the voice of God is all
powerful, we see it in creation, thundering in the waves of the sea, it breaks
the trees and shakes the wilderness…’yea,
the LORD sitteth King for ever.’
After telling us just how we should glorify God
followed by eight verse telling us of God’s greatness, David ends with this
most wonderful promise…
‘The
LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with
peace.’
Oh friends, let’s be praying for help to glorify and
worship God in our lives, to abundantly give of our praises and our all to Him
and this, our mighty powerful God WILL give us the strength we need, even the
strength we need to worship Him in the beauty of holiness and He WILL give us
peace.
‘The
LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with
peace.’
In Love,
Sharon x
My name is Sharon and I’m a Christian, wife and Mum of two.
I love Jesus and like to encourage
others to seek Him with all their heart and to abide in Him.
I aim to blog at least once a week, post
scripture based posts daily (Mon-Sat) on Instagram and
a couple of times a week on Facebook.
I live in a small town in Southern
England, close to the sea and the South Downs, where I create my
products.
I also enjoy precious time with
family, all things creative, a big mug of tea, reading and the beauty of
creation.
I have an Etsy Shop
called Savour of Salt where I sell my creations including scripture
wall hangings, colouring books and hand dyed yarns and accessories – including
scripture yarns.
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