That single word, glory, is one of the most heavily freighted and densely packed in Christian thought. To speak of the glory of God is to speak of a beauty so overwhelming that to see it fully would be more than a human being could survive.
In Exodus 33, God allows Moses to come closer than any mortal since the expulsion from Eden. God also permits Moses to make a great request: Moses says, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.
God answers, in essence, that Moses will be granted that vision, but only as a glimpse that he will be able to survive. I will make my goodness pass before you and say my name to you, but you cannot see my face.
God places Moses in the cleft of a great boulder, shields Moses, and only uncovers him to glimpse the Divine Glory from behind as it passes.
The word glory, among its many uses in the Bible, is often in this same context. Humans are allowed to see glimpses of glory revealed in the created world… but even that only in passing. Glory, though, is always present, at any moment to be revealed again.
Gabby recognizes it in creation, in the moment, and calls it by name. Francis adds that each such moment allows a glimpse of God.
MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, “THE NAVAL TREATY,” 1892Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things — our powers, our desires, our food — are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
jimmjonzz Premium Member about 3 years ago
That single word, glory, is one of the most heavily freighted and densely packed in Christian thought. To speak of the glory of God is to speak of a beauty so overwhelming that to see it fully would be more than a human being could survive.
In Exodus 33, God allows Moses to come closer than any mortal since the expulsion from Eden. God also permits Moses to make a great request: Moses says, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.
God answers, in essence, that Moses will be granted that vision, but only as a glimpse that he will be able to survive. I will make my goodness pass before you and say my name to you, but you cannot see my face.
God places Moses in the cleft of a great boulder, shields Moses, and only uncovers him to glimpse the Divine Glory from behind as it passes.
The word glory, among its many uses in the Bible, is often in this same context. Humans are allowed to see glimpses of glory revealed in the created world… but even that only in passing. Glory, though, is always present, at any moment to be revealed again.
Gabby recognizes it in creation, in the moment, and calls it by name. Francis adds that each such moment allows a glimpse of God.
Gabby again: “So quickly passing by.”
For Francis, Gabby, and Moses and….
Dani Rice about 3 years ago
I keep telling Hubby that he misses the best part of the comics by not reading the comments.
dflak about 3 years ago
They die, they rise again. Hmmm.
gcarlson about 3 years ago
MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, “THE NAVAL TREATY,” 1892Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things — our powers, our desires, our food — are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
MCProfessor about 3 years ago
And then there are the thorns.