The Beauty Of God

             
                                 The Beauty Of God
Dear Friends,
     I had to decide on a picture for this blog post. How can a picture adequately express the beauty of God? It really can't come close.  I considered a picture of the empty tomb, which I really believe is  one of the greatest ways that Jesus shined His beauty! But when I read Luke 24:49, the last words of the risen  Jesus in the Gospel of Luke,  I knew it had to be this picture of the rainbow over Jerusalem. A beautiful picture of the promise of the Father!
     One of my favorite worship songs is "A Resting Place".  It expresses a great longing  for and the finding of rest and dependence on God alone. Finding this place is what He desires for us. Psalm 27:4 speaks of beholding the beauty of The Lord and seeking Him. He created the earth and all that we see and experience with our senses.
      Throughout each year as the seasons change we can find a resting place in Him.  From the brilliant, cloudless days of summer, to the freezing, gray months of winter He can be found. Psalm 27:4 "The one thing I ask of the Lord--the thing I seek the most- is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the 
Lord's perfections and meditating in His Temple."  Every creature will one day give blessing and honor and glory and power to Him who sits on the throne. The One on the throne is  described as glorious, brilliant as gemstones with a glow like an emerald rainbow circling the throne(Rev. 5:13). 
     The storms of this material world with the dark clouds and flashes of brilliant lightning and rolling, crashing thunder are demonstrations of God's majesty. The storms hold the message that can bring us back to delight in Him. 
     Revelation 4:11 is a sort of praise song expressing the worthiness of God and the pleasures He receives from His creation. "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou has created all things, and for thy pleasure they are created.  He desires that our pleasures be in Him." 
    Every day, in every season, in good times and in trials the rainbow of His promises is there.