2 Chronicles 20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
Psalms 96:9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
“Holiness is the sum of all excellence and the combination of all the attributes which constitute perfection of character” says JP Boyce, author of Abstract of Systematic Theology.
God’s holiness is the beauty and excellence of His nature. His Holiness seasons each of His attributes. He has holy strength, holy mercy, holy justice and holy wisdom. Purity, perfection, God in all His ways is pure and untainted in all His actions and affections.
God’s holiness is beautiful, and all His attributes are beautiful. They are pure, perfect and right in every way. His beauty, since holy and pure, is also eternal. God's holiness is absent of all impurity, there is nothing in God that can decay or deteriorate; perfect holy purity.
Beauty is, in this sinful world, fleeting at best. A person with outward beauty is one with few flaws, blemishes and symmetry. The fewer the blemishes, the more beautiful. The young girl who stops traffic with her beauty, will in the process of time, loose her beautiful appearance. The young man, whose beauty is his strength and athleticism, will in the process of time, become slow and weak because of sin. Beauty in mankind is always fading because of the corruption of sin.
But God, who is eternally Holy, never fades, His Holiness never lacks luster or beauty. This is why there will never be satisfaction in pursuing a quest for outward beauty; you will never make it there. Only when we rejoice in the holiness of God can we see true beauty and be satisfied. Instead of hungering and thirsting after vain beauty, we would be better served to hunger and thirst after Jesus Christ and His righteousness.
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Douglas Newell IV
Yes, yes...
This has nothing to do with a person desiring to look nice for their spouse, or a young man or young woman staying in shape and dressing in a beautiful, modest fashion. The point is that our beauty will never equal that of God's holiness because our beauty is flawed by sin.
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