The greatest of God’s most splendid, majestic, and royal works is the coming to save guilty worms who deserve His very own wrath. What a Savior! Splendid and majestic is His work (Psalm 111.3).

In a song of praise to God, David, Asaph, and the worship-leaders proclaimed: “Splendor and majesty are before God” (1 Chronicles 16.27)! THE SPLENDOR OF GOD emanates from the glorious Being of His majesty and power and holiness. The splendor of God signifies His beauty and glory and worth and radiance! This wonderful reality evokes awe and humility on the part of the observers.

One writer so aptly put it like this: Our God is not only great, but good. Not only big, but beautiful. Not only strong, but stunning. He is, in a word, majestic. The majestic splendor of God are radiances of the stunning power of our beautiful God. The splendor of God is joined with his majesty, strength, and beauty, all beheld in His sanctuary (Psalm 96.6).

As you reflect on God’s power in creation and His unrivaled ability to do the impossible by creating with His own absolute word, the psalmist exclaims: Bless the LORD O my soul, O LORD my God you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty (Psalm 104.1). This splendor finds expression in the greatness of God and in the power of God. The word for splendor often speaks of majesty, strength, glory, honor (thus, splendor). It often arises is passages juxtaposed with majesty.

David says that He will meditate on the wonderful works and glorious splendor of God’s majesty (Psalm 145.5). That meditative splendor is seen in creation (Psalm 8.2). Indeed, the splendor of God even speaks of the Messiah who will rebuild the Temple and have royal, divine, majestic honor and splendor in the latter days (Zechariah 6.13). Everything discussed here can be summed up in the phrase: “awe-inspiring splendor.”

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