Our Glorious God
The response was "I think God would should His glory more if..." I sat there blanking out the remainder of the conversation. Over and over God kept laying on my heart that He doesn't show His glory more or less based on us. It never increases nor decreases, it all falls in our ability to see everything as glorious from our God. God will forever be displaying His glory.
As I have been sitting on that idea, praying over it and asking God to expand on it I read through Isaiah 42:20. It says, "You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen.” We serve a never changing God and He does not change His glory based on our ability or inability to see. God's glory is on display every day, but we do not pay attention. Why? There can be a multitude of reasons.
Reason one: Sin
"Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear." Isaiah 59:1-2
We are so comfortable in our sin that God's face is hidden from us. We sing empty praises on a Sunday, listen to a sermon, amen when 'the spirit leads', ask God to move in mighty ways and then go back to living our own lives come Monday and forget about God until Sunday. When He does move in a mighty way, we are too deep in our own sin that we do not see the glory He is ever revealing.
Reason two: Idols
“Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them. But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the Lord.’” Jonah 2:8-9
We become so wrapped up in what this world says it can give us: money, happiness, health, love, etc. that we lose sight of God's love for us. The love of a heavenly Father. A Father who gave His Son to die in our place and pay for our sin so that we can live in eternal glory with Him. Glory that doesn't need to begin when we enter the gates, glory that we can partake in here, today.
Reason three: pride
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." Matthew 7:7-8
Often times we become so focused in what we have accomplished or desire to accomplish that we forget to ask God. We forget to ask, seek, and knock. Rather, we become our own god, one that 'doesn't need His glory' nor do we desire to see it.
We serve a glorious God. A God that does not need us to make Him more glorious, He has been and always will be our great God. A God who isn't dependent on us, but One we should be fully dependent on.
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{Lord, let me never grow comfortable in Your glory. Allow me to live in constant awe of Who You are, for all You are, and because You are. Grow me to be a woman after Your own heart, ever seeking You. Amen.
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"Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as his counselor? Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding? Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust. Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings. Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing. With whom, then, will you compare God? To what image will you liken him? As for an idol, a metalworker casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it. A person too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot; they look for a skilled worker to set up an idol that will not topple. Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded? He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in. He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing. No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff. 'To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?' says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing."
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