Glory of God, Glory Upon Men. Living The Difference
The glory
of the Lord is what we live for, to bring him glory. In old English they would
say glory is to ascribe or give back the honour and splendor to him who
deserves it. Glory in Hebrew and Greek speaks of splendor, light, rarity,
honour beauty and abundance.
God is
already full of glory (honour, power, majesty, rarity) and there is nothing we
can do to change it. He already receives perfect worship from all angels and
heavenly beings. We can not change that and we can’t subtract from that, He
remains God but glorifying God is the essence of our lives.
“For thou hast made him a little lower than
the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour”, Psalms 8:5 KJV
This glory
within us that has been crowned upon man is what causes people like Jay Z to
call themselves Jehovah. It is that glory within man that causes many to seek
after themselves and not God. “That
no flesh should glory in his presence”, 1Corithians
1:29 God spoke about it that we shouldn’t glory in our flesh.
We were
created by God, beautiful in his nature of glory. If you are not beautiful or
do not feel as such look deep within and see the glory of God on the inside,
you have been crowned with Glory and
honour before you were born.
Worship is
a vehicle that allows us access to his presence, his desire is that we spend time
and commune with Him and enjoy his presence. “He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord”, 1Corinthians 1:31
Pst Bonnie Deuschle always
says that “Worship is becoming” which means you become more and more like the
one that you worship.
In
Exodus 34:29 -34 Moses had to cover his face so that he could talk to the
Children of Israel because the glory of the Lord was upon his life after
spending forty days and forty nights in the mountain Face to Face with God.
Who you
are today reflects who the people you spend time with everyday, those who have
godly characters they have them because they spend time with god. What are we
glorying in everyday, who do we spend time with everyday of your life is the
one whose glory you live by.
So many
times we end up showing people the glory that is in our lives (human glory) and
to those
who do not know they can not relate to it. People should be attracted
to the glory of God that we carry in our lives, it’s not ours it’s the Lord’s
glory.
“Let your light so shine before men, that
they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven”, Matthew
5:16. God desires that we carry his glory and nature into the world and show
the world the beauty and splendour. Our lives should be contagious in our all
our labour that we don’t stand in our glory.
We are
worshippers and God desires us to commune with us all the days of our lives and
one of the by products of spending time with Him is that we become more like
him in nature and you inturn carry his glory and splendour. God wants our
worship or our works to bring Him glory. Lets not stand in our glory and
minister to the earth that God is good why that is so because our glory is limited
and his can turn someone life within a minute.
Spend time
in the presence of God get the DNA, nature and glory of God and go into the
world and let the glory of the Lord over your life preach the good news of our
Lord Jesus and if necessary use words.
Worship Him
In The Beauty of His Holiness.
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