The God of Excellent Beauty

Did you know that God has an eye for detail? Beauty is important to him. Keep Reading...

READ
Exodus 25:9 - "Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you."

REFLECT
For many people, the book of Exodus is all about the 10 Commandments. The mountain-shaking God comes down to deliver his law to the Israelites. These commandments are often memorized and preached on. And they should be.

But do you know the content of most of God's instructions to Moses? It had to do with beauty. What? What does beauty have to do with nation-building, laws and procedures?

God is beautiful. His beauty radiates in everything he creates. He could have created the world in monotone and monochrome. But no, he just had to create hundred of variations on the color green. And this most creative God continues his beautiful ways in the middle of a wilderness.

God wanted his tent-house to be constructed with beauty. Details of vibrant curtain colors, acacia wood overlayed with gold, bronze footings and golden curtain hooks were important to God. He is beautiful, and he wanted his house to be beautiful. (And to think that you are now called the temple of the Holy Spirit - 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 - What are the implications here?)

God has an eye for excellence in beauty. Do you realize that he cares about this? His standards of beauty are very different from the world's standards. When we compare beauty among ourselves, we hit a dead end. Comparison actually mars beauty.

RESPOND
You need God and his ideas to create true beauty. Ask him about it. He will give you new ideas about how to create new paintings, music, stories, buildings, inventions and more. Give God your talents and interests. Ask him for a fresh move of beauty through you. He will answer you.