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Psalm 96:1-6
Early one spring morning I walked out of the front door of our home and there was the most beautiful spider web. I stooped down and picked up the morning paper, and then I stood up and just looked at it. It was a beautiful spider’s web. It was beautiful but it wasn’t very strong. Before the day was over the web was gone. Some things are beautiful but they’re not strong. And some things are strong but they’re not very beautiful. I suppose a slab of concrete is strong but it’s not too beautiful. You’re not likely to want one in your living room or a big steel girder going into a building. Yes, it might be beautiful to some people, but it’s there for its strength. It’s rather interesting that God combines strength and beauty. Psalm 96 verse 6, “Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.”
Now there was a beauty about the tabernacle and the temple. When God designed the tabernacle and the temple, He designed a beautiful building. The tabernacle was a tent, really. It had beauty but not a great deal of strength. The temple had both strength and beauty. You know our God is practical but God doesn’t get so practical He leaves out the beautiful! In the tabernacle and the temple there was beauty as well as strength. When He made nature, a tree for example, there’s strength but there’s also beauty. You look at a mountain or a river. Here comes a rushing river. There’s strength there. Ah, but there’s also beauty. One of the nice things about the Christian life is that you see both strength and beauty in the works of God, especially in our own lives. Yes, God wants us to be practical. He wants us to have strength but He also wants us to have beauty.
He wants us to have the kind of strength that is beautiful and the kind of beauty that is strong. He wants us to be practical but He also wants that extra touch of beauty in our lives. “O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness:” (v. 9). Well, “strength and beauty are in His sanctuary” (v. 6). If you and I are separated to God, walking in fellowship with Him then there’s going to come to our lives a beauty that is strong and a strength that is beautiful and we’re going to become more and more like the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Early one spring morning I walked out of the front door of our home and there was the most beautiful spider web. I stooped down and picked up the morning paper, and then I stood up and just looked at it. It was a beautiful spider’s web. It was beautiful but it wasn’t very strong. Before the day was over the web was gone. Some things are beautiful but they’re not strong. And some things are strong but they’re not very beautiful. I suppose a slab of concrete is strong but it’s not too beautiful. You’re not likely to want one in your living room or a big steel girder going into a building. Yes, it might be beautiful to some people, but it’s there for its strength. It’s rather interesting that God combines strength and beauty. Psalm 96 verse 6, “Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.”
Now there was a beauty about the tabernacle and the temple. When God designed the tabernacle and the temple, He designed a beautiful building. The tabernacle was a tent, really. It had beauty but not a great deal of strength. The temple had both strength and beauty. You know our God is practical but God doesn’t get so practical He leaves out the beautiful! In the tabernacle and the temple there was beauty as well as strength. When He made nature, a tree for example, there’s strength but there’s also beauty. You look at a mountain or a river. Here comes a rushing river. There’s strength there. Ah, but there’s also beauty. One of the nice things about the Christian life is that you see both strength and beauty in the works of God, especially in our own lives. Yes, God wants us to be practical. He wants us to have strength but He also wants us to have beauty.
He wants us to have the kind of strength that is beautiful and the kind of beauty that is strong. He wants us to be practical but He also wants that extra touch of beauty in our lives. “O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness:” (v. 9). Well, “strength and beauty are in His sanctuary” (v. 6). If you and I are separated to God, walking in fellowship with Him then there’s going to come to our lives a beauty that is strong and a strength that is beautiful and we’re going to become more and more like the Lord Jesus Christ.