The psalmist wanted to be in the Lord’s presence both “to behold” and “to inquire.” He wanted “to behold the beauty of the Lord.” The time is not yet come when “thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty,” but “though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory,” for by faith “we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” Thus we “behold the beauty of the Lord,” “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith: who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God,” “for He is thy Lord; and worship thou Him.” And as we gaze upon Him in His Word, “we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord,” and with Moses we pray, “Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.”
Let His beauty be seen in me,
That men may in me behold
The grace and love of my Savior,
Who gave Himself for my soul.
Isa. 33:17; 1 Peter 1:8; Heb. 2:9; 12:2; Psa. 45:11; 2 Cor. 3:18; Psa. 90:17.