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"Most Beautiful" by Aaron Goodhew: Teach My Heart to Treasure Only You


What do you treasure most?

Aaron Goodhew set out to write a song from David’s cry in Psalm 27. What came out, however, was the honest wrestle of my whole Christian life on paper. He spent days with that one passage, and then one afternoon at the piano, “Most Beautiful” simply came out.

Aaron Goodhew - Most BeautifulDoes that wrestle sound familiar? You love God, you really mean it, and by lunchtime you’re chasing something else.

Aaron doesn’t hide this. He sings, “How quickly I’m enamoured by all the things that You’ve made.” A sunrise, a promotion, a quiet evening. There is nothing wrong with any of this. Yet “all of the beauty and splendour is dim in the light of Your face.” The chorus asks a question that many of us try to dodge: “Why would I treasure idols and pleasures that never follow through?”

David had an answer to that question. He didn’t ask God for ten things, he only asked God for one: “that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD” (Psalm 27:4, ESV).

One ask. One focus. Think of what that does to a crowded, noisy day.
You can start tomorrow differently, before you reach for your phone. Just spend five minutes simply looking at who God is. Name what you love about Him. Thank Him for the gifts, then lift your eyes past the gifts to the Giver.

You will stumble from time to time, we all do. Aaron knows it, and so does God. The song reminds us that He removes our transgressions “as far as the east from the west,” and that He’ll “finish the work You began.” Failure doesn’t disqualify you. It sends you back to Him.

Do you feel weary today? Empty? Doubting? Then use the bridge of the song as your own prayer: “When I’m doubting, help my heart to believe.”

Give “Most Beautiful” a listen, and let it spark (or maybe even become) your prayer. Sing it during your commute, in the kitchen, or replay the lyrics in your mind before you sleep. “Lord, teach my heart to only treasure You”

(Related scripture: Psalm 27:4; Psalm 103:12; Philippians 1:6)

Background:

I set out to write a song from David's cry in Psalm 27 that I may "dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life and gaze upon his beauty". What came out however, was the honest wrestle of my whole Christian life on paper. I wrestled for days with this passage of scripture and then one afternoon infront of a piano, the song just came out.

Release date: October 23, 2026

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