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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

The aesthetic experience of God, the encounter of the human soul with divine beauty, is more than merely enjoyable, it is profoundly transforming. There is within it the power to persuade and to convince the inquiring mind of truth. This may well be the Spirit’s greatest catalyst for change. Paul alluded to this in 2 Corinthians 3:18 when he said, “We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into His likeness from one degree of glory to another.” The point is that what we see is what we be! We do not simply behold beauty: beauty takes hold of us and challenges the allegiance of our hearts. Beauty calls us to reshape our lives and exposes the shabbiness of our conduct. It awakens us to the reality of a transcendent Being to whose likeness of beauty we are being called and conformed by His gracious initiative. Beauty has the power to dislodge from our hearts the grip of moral and spiritual ugliness. The soul’s engagement with beauty elicits love and forges in us a new affection that no earthly power can overcome.
Sam Storms

Bible – Read the Español – (Spanish Modern) Salmos Chapter 42:1-11 Online.

Index: Español – (Spanish Modern)

 

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42:1 (Al músico principal. Masquil de los hijos de Coré) Como ansía el venado las corrientes de las aguas, así te ansía a ti, oh Dios, el alma mía.

42:2 Mi alma tiene sed de Dios, del Dios vivo. ¿Cuándo iré para presentarme delante de Dios?

42:3 Mis lágrimas han sido mi alimento día y noche, mientras me dicen todos los días: “¿Dónde está tu Dios?”

42:4 Recuerdo estas cosas y derramo mi alma dentro de mí: cuando pasaba con la muchedumbre, guiándolos hasta la casa de Dios, con voz de alegría y de acción de gracias de la multitud en fiesta.

42:5 ¿Por qué te abates, oh alma mía, y te turbas dentro de mí? Espera a Dios, porque aún le he de alabar. ¡Él es la salvación de mi ser,

42:6 y mi Dios! Mi alma está abatida dentro de mí. Por esto me acordaré de ti en la tierra del Jordán y del Hermón, en el monte de Mizar.

42:7 Un abismo llama a otro por la voz de tus cascadas; todas tus ondas y tus olas han pasado sobre mí.

42:8 De día, mandará Jehovah su misericordia; y de noche, su canción estará conmigo, la oración al Dios de mi vida.

42:9 Diré a Dios: “Roca mía, ¿por qué te has olvidado de mí? ¿Por qué he de andar enlutado por la opresión del enemigo?”

42:10 Mientras mis huesos se quebrantan, mis enemigos me afrentan diciéndome cada día: “¿Dónde está tu Dios?”

42:11 ¿Por qué te abates, oh alma mía, y por qué te turbas dentro de mí? Espera a Dios, porque aún le he de alabar. ¡Él es la salvación de mi ser, y mi Dios!