“Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us” (Ps 90:17). For many years this verse hung by the mirror where we prepared ourselves to meet the day. It often reminded me of another psalm: “They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed” (34:5).
H.G. Bosch says, “A dear Christian lady, over eighty years of age, wrote to me some years ago…‘I recall in class meeting when I was a child,’ she said, ‘that I used to watch a precious old saint as with closed eyes he sang with head thrown back and with tears trickling down over a perfectly radiant face, “Come Thou Fount of every blessing”! Sometimes he sang in tune, and sometimes way off, but nobody cared, because he sang with his whole soul. I do not remember a single word that he ever said, but I was profoundly impressed with his face. I wanted to be a Christian like that! Since then I have often prayed, “O Father, help me to be a radiant Christian!” ’ ”
Lord, please reflect your beauty from my face today!