The Desire to Behold Beauty
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
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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 Beauty by David Funk.
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Thank you so much for listening to today’s podcast, the longing for beauty.
As you go about your day today, try and recognize the beauty God has placed all around. Try and be more present in the world you live in, and allow God’s creation in all it’s forms to stir up your heart to find more enjoyment in him.
Tomorrow we’ll look at the longing for greatness. If you’re feeling unsatisfied in your accomplishments, like you’re not achieving everything you were meant for, you won’t want to miss tomorrow’s episode. So if you haven’t already, make sure to subscribe to the podcast.
Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue our week-long focus on seven longings of the human heart, today we're going to take a look at the longing we all share for beauty. |
| 0:13.0 | God has created beauty all around us, beauty we can see and beauty we can feel. |
| 0:19.0 | And in a world so inundated with false notions of beauty, |
| 0:22.6 | today my prayer is that God reveals the purity within this longing that resides within each of our hearts, |
| 0:28.6 | and its perfect plans to satisfy it. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to the First 15 Podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | Beauty is captivating in all its forms, from sunsets to mountaintops, flower petals to starry nights. |
| 0:45.4 | We devote countless hours, years, and even lives to the wonder and pursuit of beauty. |
| 0:51.1 | We write songs and poetry and devotion to that which inspires us with its beauty. |
| 0:56.0 | We spend our blood, sweat, and tears, and attempts to discover if we have any beauty within |
| 1:00.8 | ourselves. We are a people marked by a need for beauty, an insatiable longing that can only be |
| 1:07.2 | satisfied in its creator. For a long time time I tried to rid myself of the longing for |
| 1:12.5 | beauty. I tried simply not to desire it. I equated this longing within me to a pursuit of |
| 1:18.5 | vanity that seemed only to end in destruction. It wasn't until my longing for beauty began |
| 1:24.5 | to find its satisfaction in God that I discovered God's original purpose behind it. The longing for beauty began to find its satisfaction in God that had discovered God's original |
| 1:28.6 | purpose behind it. The longing for beauty is an incredible gift given to us by our Heavenly |
| 1:34.1 | Father. Every time we look upon something beautiful, we get a glimpse into the beautiful heart |
| 1:39.1 | of God. Our God is a perfect creator who makes beautiful things. Everything He is and does is beautiful in its own way. |
| 1:48.0 | So when you feel a longing to be beautiful or see beauty, you are really feeling a longing |
| 1:53.0 | for the Almighty Triune God. |
| 1:55.0 | You are created with an insatiable need to look upon your Creator in all his power and glory, that you might stand in |
| 2:02.4 | all of this indescribable beauty for all eternity. And you have a longing to hear the voice of your |
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