Daily Discipleship - Day 332: To Gaze upon the Beauty of the LORD

May 3, 2026

Daily Discipleship • Day 332 • Sunday, March 28, 2027

To Gaze upon the Beauty of the LORD

Psalm 27:4

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Scripture

Psalm 27:4 (LXX / ESV) μίαν ᾔτησα παρὰ κυρίου, ταύτην ἐκζητήσω· τοῦ κατοικεῖν με ἐν οἴκῳ κυρίου πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς μου τοῦ θεωρεῖν τὴν τερπνότητα κυρίου One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.

Author & Audience

C. S. Lewis — author of Till We Have Faces and The Weight of Glory, whose reflections on beauty and desire for God as the deepest human longing make this Psalm resonate with everyone who aches for more than this world offers.

Word Study

τερπνότητα

terpnotēta · Greek LXX

“beauty / delight / pleasantness”

terpnos means delightful, pleasing, giving pleasure. The LXX uses it to render the Hebrew no'am (pleasantness, beauty). David reduces all his desires to one: to gaze on the delightfulness of God—to be absorbed in the beauty of who God is. Contemplation of the divine beauty is presented as the supreme human occupation.

Reflection

From the writers we read together

C. S. Lewis

Author of The Weight of Glory; Oxford, 1898–1963

“We are far too easily pleased.” — The Weight of Glory

David's one request is not for safety, success, or even spiritual victory—it is for vision. To see the beauty of God. This is a request for the highest good, what theologians call the beatific vision. Every other blessing David might have requested would be satisfied by this one.

Lewis wrote that we settle for lesser pleasures—mud pies in a slum—when we have been invited to a holiday at the sea. The longing behind every beautiful thing you have ever seen or felt is a longing for this: to see God as He is. Today, let that longing surface and bring it to God. Ask for the one thing David asked.

Continue your study: LXX-ESV Bible Study — Study the beauty of God's Word in both the Septuagint and ESV at our LXX-ESV Bible Study page.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, King of the Universe, Lord, one thing I ask: to see Your beauty. Let every act of worship today—however small—be a turning of my eyes toward You. I want to know You as You are. Amen.

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