You're Beautiful

A song by Phil Wickham:

I see Your face in every sunrise
The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakens in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say
You’re beautiful

I see Your power in the moonlit night
Where planets are in motion and galaxies are bright
We are amazed in the light of the stars
It’s all proclaiming who You are
You’re beautiful, You're beautiful

I see you there hanging on a tree
You bled and then you died and then you rose again for me
Now you are sitting on Your heavenly throne
Soon we will be coming home
You’re beautiful, you're beautiful

When we arrive at eternity’s shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we’ll sing
You’re beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful
I see Your face, I see Your face
I see Your face, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful


Today I remembered something. The week before I got married, I was trying to wrap my mind around the amazing fact of Christ being our bridegroom, and the church being the bride. As I was praying, it came to my attention how sad if a bride were not completely and utterly captivated and so much in love with her soon to be husband. And so lovingly, I felt that the Lord Jesus allowed me to feel for a brief second that that is indeed what He has felt so many times. It broke my heart, and if you are a born again Christian it should break yours too. He gave up everything for us, and loves us far beyond anything we could ever imagine in this life. Do you love Him back? The Bible says we love him because he first loved us. I think it's time that we allow the love of God to flood our lives so that we can love him in return. "I want to know you" should be the cry of our hearts. When we see him all we can say is "you're beautiful". That is the response when we allow God to infiltrate our lives. But it's a choice. And, just like in any relationship, it involves giving up of ourselves and our own desires.

Lord, reveal to us how great your love is. How wide, how deep, how far it reaches, beyond all we could ask or think in our finite minds. You are great God, and your love towards me is great. God I pray our desire would be to know YOU. In Jesus name, Amen.

1 John 4:9 "This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him."