The Beauty of God.

“Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.” Psa. 90:17.

There are many wonderful prayers in the Bible. The book is in fact a

storehouse of prayers. We have in the text one of the most remarkable, one of the most glorious that the sacred volume contains. It was the Holy Ghost that filled the writer with the intense yearning that some of the beauty of the Divine nature should adorn his character. Every child of God experiences the same yearning in a greater or less degree. In what then does the beauty of the Divine character consist?

I. The Beauty of his holiness. 

God is glorious in holiness. Every thought, every word, every

deed of his is absolutely perfect and holy. We too must seek to be holy and pure. “Be ye holy, for I am holy.”

II. The beauty of the Divine self-sacrifice. 

Each person of the blessed Trinity has sacrificed himself for the

salvation of men. ‘God so loved the world that he gave his Son.” The

Saviour gave himself. The Spirit is ever giving himself by consenting: to dwell in the hearts of men. III. We have the beauty of Divine love. God delights in his children. He regards them as his jewels (Mal. 3:17). He longs for their perfect happiness here and hereafter. Let us rest upon this glorious fact, and may God’s love enable us to love our fellows. “Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.”