http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXaRbNjKVic
The glory of God is the manifest beauty of His holiness.
Its the going public of His holiness.
Its the way He puts His holiness on display for people to apprehend.
“The heavens are telling the glory of God”. What does that mean?
It means He shouting at us!
He shouts with clouds.
He shouts with blue expanse.
He shouts with gold on the horizons.
He shouts with galaxies and stars.
He’s shouting “I AM GLORIOUS!”
Open your eyes!
Do you see it? Do you love it? You were made for this.
You were made for this!
This is why I exist: to see that. Everything is pointing to that. All the glory that I thought was so attractive is going there.
This [world] is all husks and ashes.
“Now we see through a glass darkly, then face to face”
“I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us”…
So, the glory that’s coming is such of an all satisfying, infinitely beautiful, totally need-meeting, and joy producing time,
that 80 years of pain
will be as nothing!
This…
slight…
momentary…
affliction…
is working for us an eternal weight of what?
…
Glory!
Are you glad that you exist to display the glory of God?
God is aiming that we see, and savor, and treasure His glory; the riches of His glory.
So I ask, do you see it?
Do you love it?
And I say again, you were made for this.
1 comment:
I'm glad you left the comments open. It allows me to say thank you for sharing these words. I don't know where you encountered them, but I know them from a Matt Papa song "The Glory of God" and the speaker sounds for all the world like John Piper. This is so beautiful... I have never listened to this song but what my heart felt joy and my eyes were full of tears. Thanks again.
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