Beautiful by Phil Wickham

{Edit: I finally fixed these to add the videos, they don’t come through when I send them via email through posterous. Posterous holds the videos hostage, keeps ‘em to itself.}

Live with band

Acoustic version from Singalong

This song is gorgeous…I’ve been noticing the beauty of God’s creation all this week, his handiwork in the sky, in the clouds, and the beauty of sun rays breaking through clouds. Each verse of this song paints such a visual, colorful picture. The melody and musicality, each note and chord progression are just as beautiful as the deeply poetic lyrics, making this a true gem of a song. Just gorgeous. This song just came up on my playlist, and it’s definitely a new favorite xoxo

Beautiful by Phil Wickham

I see Your face in every sunrise
The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakens in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say
You’re beautiful

I see Your power in the moonlit night
Where planets are in motion and galaxies are bright
We are amazed in the light of the stars
It’s all proclaiming who you are
You’re beautiful

I see you there hanging on a tree
You bled and then you died and then you rose again for me
Now you are sitting on Your heavenly throne
Soon we will be coming home
You’re beautiful

When we arrive at eternity’s shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together and we’ll sing
You’re beautiful

I see Your face, I see Your face, I see Your face
You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful

Behind the Song:
“I wrote this song while leading worship at a youth camp. The theme of the Bible study that night was about how God has revealed bits and pieces of Himself in creation. “Beautiful” was born out of that night. I wanted this song to have a hymn feel to it. Mostly because the imagery in the lyrics reminded me of other hymns we sing. There are four verses in this song and each song is part of a progression. The first verse is about how we see the Lords beauty manifest in the morning/daylight. The second verse is about the night sky, and how His beauty is displayed in it. So there in the first two verses there is a “from morning till night” thing going on. The third verse goes on to speak of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and how through his work there He has allowed us to be apart of His pure and blameless beauty. The last verse is the sum of it all. When we reach heavens shores and see Jesus for who He really is… Beautiful.” – Phil Wickham {taken from JesusFreakHideout.com}