Strength and Beauty Dwell In You

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne:

“Splendor and majesty are before Him, strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.”

Psalm 96:6 

Praise God! Scripture reveals to us, “You are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you” (1 Corinthians 3:16).

This means that you and I are, right now, a sanctuary for our Lord, Who presently abides in us, so that we may abide in Christ, according to His word (“Abide in Me, and I in you” John 15: 4-11).

So, according to this psalm, “strength and beauty” reside now in you, for you have become God’s New Covenant sanctuary, His inner court temple. “Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.”

How may we see this strength and this beauty?

Step inside. Enter your “inner room.”

As Jesus said, “Go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you” (Matthew 6:6). Your inner room is the room within you, where your Father dwells, and He sees all of your prayer, praise and devotion.

An immediate reward given to us every single time we practice our priesthood, ministering to the Lord in our inner room, being in His Spirit as God’s sanctuary and resting place (Isaiah 66:1-2), is that we are graced to see strength and beauty in His sanctuary, in us!

This is a great reward.

Simply to be with our God, in His presence, beholding the awesome strength and beauty of Himself, is a supreme reward. And this is available to us, actually within us, 24/7!

As Jesus Himself declared, at the close of the New Testament, “My reward is with Me” (Revelation 22:12). Hallelujah!

One day for sure we will be with our Lord in heaven forever, but right now, in the meantime, I need some of that “with Me” reward.

I want to be with my Lord in His presence, now. To be with Him is to behold His strength and beauty, which is always life-renewing, faith-strengthening, and beauty inducing. What a beautiful reward, to be with our beautiful Lord in His beautiful presence.

I am sure this is why David wrote, “One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple” (Psalm 27:4).

Beloved child of God, please see this now: that this “one thing” which David was asking God for, your Lord Jesus has, in fact, already given to you! His beauty lives within you now and is beckoning, awaiting your attending presence and blessing even at this moment.

Step inside, beloved, and praise your God’s holy name, declaring to your Lord that “Splendor and majesty are before You, strength and beauty are in Your sanctuary.”

Hallelujah!