Psalm 90:17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you the work of our hands on us; yes… Modern science teaches us that the crimson colour of a rose is not in the rose itself, but consists alone in the flower's property of picking out, and reflecting back the crimson ray that mingles in the sun's white light. And this applies to flowers of every hue. Their beauty is not their own; it is wholly due to the colours which emanate from the sun itself. So it is equally true of the believer. He has no grace of beauty in himself, but all his purity of thought and life, like the beauty of the flowers, is drawn from the Sun of Righteousness. In Christ he is "fair as the splendid, flower-embroidered hangings of Judah's royal palace." (R. Venting.) Parallel Verses KJV: And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. |
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