The Longing for Beauty
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our week-long focus on 7 longings of the human heart, today we’re going to look at the longing we all share for 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.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue our week-long focus on seven longings of the human heart, |
| 0:10.0 | today we're going to look at the longing we all share for beauty. |
| 0:15.0 | God has created beauty all around us. |
| 0:19.0 | Beauty we can see and beauty we can feel. |
| 0:21.6 | And in a world so inundated with false notions of beauty, |
| 0:26.6 | today my prayer is that God reveals the purity |
| 0:30.6 | within this longing that resides within each of our hearts |
| 0:34.6 | and his perfect plans to satisfy it. |
| 0:39.4 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Psalm 149 verse 4. |
| 1:16.6 | Scripture says, for the Lord takes pleasure in his people. |
| 1:22.6 | He will beautify the humble with salvation. |
| 1:34.6 | Beauty is captivating in all its forms. |
| 1:42.4 | From sunsets to mountaintops, flower petals to starry nights. We devote countless hours, years, and even lives |
| 1:46.5 | to the wonder and pursuit of beauty. |
| 1:50.6 | We write songs and poetry in devotion to that which inspires us with its beauty. |
| 1:58.2 | We spend our blood, sweat, and tears in attempt to discover if we have any beauty |
| 2:05.2 | within ourselves. We are a people marked by a need for beauty, an insatiable longing that can only |
| 2:15.6 | be satisfied in its creator. |
| 2:18.3 | For a long time, I tried to rid myself of the longing for beauty. |
| 2:25.3 | I tried simply not to desire it. |
| 2:28.3 | I equated this longing within me to a pursuit of vanity |
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