“All truth is God’s truth” is a maxim most Christians are comfortable affirming. A mathematical theorem is true whether the one who discovers it believes in God or not. There are atheists who have uncovered profound mathematical truths with no awareness that what they’ve found ultimately belongs to God—and yet that truth still brings Him glory. Truth does not require acknowledgment to be true.
But I wonder if we’ve thought deeply enough about a parallel idea: all beauty is God’s beauty.
Whether the one creating it recognizes the source or not, beauty has the same transcendent quality as truth. A melody can move us before we understand why. An Italian opera—words we can’t translate, phrases we don’t intellectually grasp—can still carry us somewhere beyond ourselves. It lifts us above the performer, above the technique, even above the language itself. Beauty points past the human instrument to something eternal.
In that way, beauty quietly refuses to stay contained within human limits. It exposes the cracks in our finiteness and lets light through.
Last night in Nashville, listening to Dan Huff play guitar, that reality hit me all over again. What I experienced wasn’t merely excellence or nostalgia or even admiration for a master musician—though all of that was there. What I felt was gratitude. Gratitude that God, in His ongoing creativity—His creatio continua—still chooses to reveal His glory through flawed, finite people.
That’s the thing about beauty: it transcends the brokenness of the one creating it. It surpasses motive, belief, reputation, and even awareness. A beautiful thing remains beautiful because its source is not ultimately human.
For every beautiful thing, God gets the glory.
Dan Huff absolutely ripped it up last night. It was beautiful. And I left the room thankful—deeply thankful—for what I believe may be God’s most glory-revealing gift to humanity: music. A gift that bypasses our defenses, quiets our arguments, and reminds us that we were made for more than explanation—we were made for worship.
Dan, thanks for coming out of retirement and creating a moment of worship for me.
God be praised.
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