The Desire to Behold Beauty
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our week-long focus on the desires of every heart, today we’re going to look at the desire we all share to behold beauty. God has created beauty all around us, beauty we can see and beauty we can feel. And in a world so inundated with false notions of beauty, today my prayer is that God reveals the purity within this longing that resides within each of our hearts, and his perfect plans to satisfy it.
The main concept for this week is derived from The Seven Longings of the Human Heart by Mike Bickle and Deborah Hiebert.
Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 149:4, and today's worship is Wonder by Bethel Music.
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| 0:00.0 | If you look around, it doesn't take much to see that God values beauty. |
| 0:09.0 | We're surrounded by it in nature and our loved ones, in music and the arts in every human heart. |
| 0:17.0 | As we take time today to reframe and redeem our understanding around our desire for beauty, |
| 0:23.7 | I pray that you're encouraged, filled with wonder, and desire afresh for the Lord. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to the First 15 Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Psalm 149-4, which reads, |
| 0:50.6 | For the Lord takes pleasure in his people, He'll beautify the humble with salvation. |
| 1:00.0 | Beauty is captivating in all its forms. |
| 1:04.0 | From sunsets to mountaintops, flower petals to starry nights. |
| 1:09.0 | We devote countless hours, years, and even lives to the wonder and pursuit of beauty. |
| 1:14.6 | We write songs and poetry and devotion to that which inspires us with its beauty. |
| 1:20.6 | We spend our blood, sweat, and tears in attempt to discover if we have any beauty within ourselves. |
| 1:28.3 | We're a people marked by a need for beauty, an insatiable desire that can only be satisfied in its creator. |
| 1:37.3 | For a long time, I tried to rid myself of the desire for beauty. I tried simply not to want it. I equated this desire within me to a pursuit |
| 1:47.1 | of vanity that seemed only to end in destruction. It wasn't until my desire for beauty began to find |
| 1:54.3 | its satisfaction in God that I discovered God's original purpose behind it. The desire to behold beauty is an incredible gift given to us by our Heavenly Father. |
| 2:06.9 | Every time we look upon something beautiful, we get a glimpse into the beautiful heart of God. |
| 2:13.3 | Our God is a perfect creator who makes beautiful things. |
| 2:17.6 | Everything He is and does is beautiful in its own way. |
| 2:22.6 | So when you feel a desire to be beautiful or see beauty, |
| 2:26.5 | you're really feeling a desire for the Almighty Triune God. |
| 2:30.7 | You were created with an insatiable need |
| 2:33.0 | to look upon your creator in all his power and glory, |
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