To Gaze upon the Beauty of the Lord – Terry Nightingale
“One thing I ask from the Lord,
“One thing I ask from the Lord,
Psalm 23 is one of the most quoted or preached passages in the whole of the Bible. It has beautiful imagery. Often read at funerals, it contains words and phrases that have comforted and encouraged millions of believers down the centuries.
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
Apparently, some people don’t like talking about this.
As we mark the end of one year and the beginning of another, what better way than to take a moment to pray?
“So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger because there was no guest room available for them.” (Luke 2: 4 – 7)
Malachi is the last book of the Old Testament and the last of a long line of prophets speaking to Israel and Judah between about 800 BC and 460 BC.
George Müller once said, “I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day, was to have my soul happy in the Lord”.
Whatever we give of ourselves, even if it is damaged or broken, He is more than able to take something secondhand and make it into something beautiful.
“For thirty-eight years, the Israelites wandered slowly in the wilderness. The Bible doesn’t talk a lot about it—a few verses in Deuteronomy and five chapters in the book of Numbers. Is there anything to be gained here? Does this barren, lifeless place teach us anything?