June 15, 2021
Over time, many of us have become less and less enamored with Facebook. Aside from the obvious political bias, in many ways it’s become a cesspool of toxicity where people pick fights with folks they’ve never met. What could be a tool to bring us together and help us stay connected is instead often a means of conflict and division. There are however, some groups that have formed around bringing goodness and beauty into our days.
One of the groups I personally like is about castles of the world. Early on, castles were defensive strongholds reflecting dangerous and violent times, but they evolved into opulent dwellings of the rich and powerful. The extravagance of their beauty however, was often surpassed by the decadence of their inhabitants.
Today’s psalms included fifteen and forty-five. The fifteenth speaks of integrity and righteousness required of those who would aspire to the dwelling place of God. Psalm forty-five tells of the beauty of that place and of those who live there. All is filled with beauty, most of which is centered in the beauty of the royals daughter, of the king and queen. Revelation 21 tells of the future heavenly city, verse twenty-seven saying, “There shall by no means inter anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
The splendor of heaven will not be so much the streets of gold, but the holiness of its inhabitants. In this world, beautiful places are often built upon the suffering of the poor, and are haunts of the depraved. The heavenly city is built on the suffering of our Savior, and will be the home of the holy. What a contrast! What a future to behold! How much more I need to prepare to live there! If I reject holiness in this life, how can I expect to enjoy it in the next? The Scripture tells us to worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness because holiness is the essence of true beauty.
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