9^th August 2010

SEEDS FOR HARVESTING 5/30

John 17:22
"The glory You have given me, I have given to them."

What does it mean for us to receive Jesus' glory?
It's too unbelievable to comprehend.
Yet there have been times when
the very sense of Jesus' presence is so overpowering
that we are beside ourselves
with a sense of deep abiding love and joy.
Like C.S.Lewis we are "Surprised by joy."

God's "glory" was never absent from Jesus.
Whether the creator, incarnate in human flesh,
as the ‘criminal' on the cross, in death and resurrection,
God's glory, "the glory You have given Me"
was never absent from Him.

Unbelievable as it may seem,
that "glory" Jesus offers to us.
We can never equate it
with our human experiences.
We shall never produce it in a test tube.
We shall never reduce it to a formula.

God's "glory" is His gift to us through His Son,
and He asks us just to receive it.
Therefore we naturally want to give Him all the praise.
This gift is more glorious than any sunrise or sunset
because it touches our hearts first,
and because it is His "glory" it is eternal.

For me this childlike chorus speak volumes.
"That shall be glory, glory for me,
when by His grace I'll look on His face,
That will be glory, be glory, for me."

Bob Imms 8.8.10