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- Beholding the Beauty of the Lord.

Where David says, "Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things from your Law," he is speaking of a book. David knew that there were awesome untold treasures to be found in God's book. He knew this intuitively and he knew it by experience. In fact when David said 'wonderful things' it is likely that his attention was directed towards God's secret, that is, His Messiah, the Lord.

Later David writes, "The Lord said to my Lord." Since we now know that this speaks of Jesus Himself, it can be said that David's Lord was Jesus Christ, even though he did not know the Lord by that name. But David spoke often of Jesus, as did Isaiah and all the prophets. In fact the older testament is a treasure house that is filled with the beauty of the Lord Jesus.

And so while the apostle Paul points us to the treasure house of God's book, he also speaks of a blindness that has come upon those of the Jewish faith who had rejected Jesus as the Messiah and Lord of Israel. But the book remains true. For believers it is filled with the awesome wonders of Jesus and of His beauty.

When we believers read the same Scriptures as do they in the synagogue, there is no veil over our hearts. The apostle said that we are 'being' transformed from glory to glory as we behold the beauty of the Lord. Of course Paul was speaking of what we today call the Old Testament. There was no New Testament when Paul wrote his letters. (Actually Paul's writings are considered to be the earliest books we have in the New Testament.)

But in all this, perhaps it should be said that the single greatest need of believers today is to have our eyes fully opened to the glory and beauty of Jesus. It was this very beauty that enthralled the prophets of old. It was this revealed beauty that enthralled the apostles, as we hear John write, "And we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:14)

Psalms 27
ONE thing have I desired of The LORD, THAT will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of The LORD all the days of my life, to behold The Beauty of The LORD, and to inquire in His temple.

Buddy Martin