The Beauty of the Lord

“I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the LORD and seeking Him in His temple.”  Psalm 27:4

I came across this verse today while I was on my lunch break and I just had to share it with you all.  I think that God wants us to desire this.  We are constantly failing our God, because we are constantly seeking other sources of happiness.  All that we should desire is God.  We should have the desire to dwell with Him all of our days.  Can you imagine gazing on the beauty of the Lord?  Seriously, Christians we get to do that someday.  That is awesome.  Everything that we are is the Lord anyway, so we might as well give Him our desires as well.  Now you might be thinking that this whole ‘only desire the Lord’ things sounds good but that you would never be able to do it on your own.  That, I feel, is why God gave us the first part of the verse. David is asking God to give him this desire.  There is where I, and probably others, so often fail.  God has great things in planned for me and you.  Someday we are going to go to Heaven and will dwell with the Lord in His temple.  When we are living our day to day lives it is easy to forget this.  But when we ask the Lord for help, he will help us.