Ps. 48: God's Eternal Beauty

Psalm 48:2 "It is beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth. Like the utmost heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King."

God is eternally strong, and also eternally...eternal. Which blows my mind like nothing I have ever tried to figure out. Sit there for a second, and ponder eternity. A state of never ending. Its equally as befuddling as it is horrifying. Its impossible to figure out, because its not our nature. You live, then you die.

But anyway. I had to consider the words of this chapter. Not much is made of the beauty of God to this point. Creation, beautiful. Women, beautiful. The tabernacle, the temple, beautiful. But here God is described as beautiful. An invisible God is beautiful. This is beyond appearance. Incredible that with just the presence of God, a place becomes beautiful. It assumes that character. The mountain, the city of God, beautiful because of the presence of God. If God is in you...