A Theater of Glory

It just so happens that as I was finishing up the final edit of the Discipleship Material we use at St. Patrick, I was sitting outside on the porch of my cabin, here in Estes Park, Colorado and looking at a snow covered mountain peak that reached over 12,000 feet in the air! I am literally surrounded by glory and, if the Bible is to believed, revelation. The material I was editing is something called “God in the Stuff.”

My mind immediately ran to Isaiah 6, where Isaiah saw a vision of these created beings, majestic in all aspects, calling to one another, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Host; the whole earth is full of his glory!” You see that! I don’t have to apologize for my soul being filled with longing at the things God created. And as I ponder the glory, I went back to Psalm 19, where thousands of years ago David, the poet of God, looked at the same glory around him and said this:

The heavens declare the glory of God,and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.Day to day pours out speech,and night to night reveals knowledge.There is no speech, nor are there words,whose voice is not heard.Their voice goes out through all the earth,and their words to the end of the world.In them he has set a tent for the sun,which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.Its rising is from the end of the heavens,and its circuit to the end of them,and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

Psalm 19: 1-6

What the Bible tells us is huge, the world is filled with meaning. We literally are in a classroom every day and night, if we have eyes to see it. I agree it is easier to see it at a place like this but for all of us, what the Bible is saying is that if you can see it, you have to look no further than your own backyard, neighborhood, or neighbor to see the glory of God. The world is a classroom of God’s glory!

See you guys Sunday.

Blessings,

Jim