Beautiful

It's an odd word. More colloquially, we use it to describe anything. That pitch was... the movie was ... this cooking is... When we use it to refer to people, it's rare that we attribute it to a man. Yet we sing things like "God how beautiful you are" Someone overhead a friend and I singing some praise songs and remarked "I didn't know God was female." The statement made me wonder a bit about this phrase and in general the language we use to describe God. If beautiful, being a feminine term, is attributed to our Heavenly Father, is that something wrong and worse yet, insulting? Perhaps in the age of equality, people say there should be no lines between this kind of thing. Well I don't necessarily support that entirely, but I'm sorry to say that the Bible beat them too it.

Twice in the old testament in 1 Samuel 16 and 17. The Greek word Yapheh is used to describe David. This same word is used in other places to describe beautiful women. So david, when he was young, was beautiful. Great.

Language is a funny thing. Two people can say the same thing, but mean entirely different things. It's complicated. What makes it complicated? I believe it's heart. What does Jesus say? Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. Not words but intentions. Anyone can say words, not everyone can be sincere. To speak without understanding... is it so hard to admit that we don't know what we're talking about? Haha yes it is. If I act like I know what I'm talking about when I don't, isn't that just a form of lying? Trying to deceive people into thinking that I'm someone I'm not or I know what I don't. It comes from the heart.

Regardless, whenever I use the word beautiful to describe God, I can do so with more confidence knowing the context of how it was used in the Bible. Do I know what I'm talking about? No... but a little bit more I do.