“One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.” [Psalm 27:4]

Does anyone have an idea what it means for David when he says he wants to “gaze upon the beauty of the Lord”?
Since God is invisible, what can he mean?
Unfortunately, this gets more complicated when I think of the word “beauty”, what that words means to us when we say it, and what it means in reference to God.
The Amplified version of this verse expands on David’s words, “to behold and gaze upon the beauty [the sweet attractiveness and the delightful loveliness] of the Lord”.

The root word in Hebrew includes goodness, favour, pleasantness.
I am thinking that the word might better be translated shining or shimmering goodness, something that is as much felt as it is seen.
I have had moments in prayer when I felt the shimmering goodness of God, that sense of wonder and delight, like looking at the northern lights only infinitely more wonderful.
So what do you think, what might David mean when he speaks of “gazing on the beauty of the Lord”?