Seeing God’s Glory

Sunday morning retuning: Sobering words from Pastor Paul about our role in going.  Are you taking any action steps to press into what God is calling you to do as you go?  Carefully consider what God may be saying to you and commit to letting God’s light shine through you, no matter where He leads.

So the last few weeks I have been encouraging us to think about Moses encounter with God where he asked to see God’s glory.  I have also been challenging you to partner with me to pray that God was show us His glory, and I am still accepting willing participants.  Before we go any further though I want to take the opportunity to help you understand exactly what we are asking for.

When we consider Moses encounter, I find it fascinating that we only have sketchy details as to what the experience was like for Moses as described in Exodus 34. We know God came down in a cloud, stood there with Moses and passed in front of him.  We know bowed down and asked the Lord to go with them again.  Moses stayed there on the mountain for forty days and nights with eating or drinking, and wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant.

What we do not know is what that looked like to Moses.  God’s glory is not described to us, and frankly, I think that is a good thing.  If it were, we would be prone to what to reproduce it somehow, and desire the same expression, as opposed to receiving the Lord however he wants to reveal Himself to us today, and in our services.  I have often said that I am thankful for the descriptions of worship in the New Testament, as opposed to prescriptions, for it gives us the freedom to seek God without constraining His creativity to reveal Himself.

So how do we “see” God’s glory?  James McDonald in his book Vertical Church puts it like this.  “When someone or something evidences the reality of God’s existence, that revealing is God’s glory.  We don’t see God; we see the evidence that He has been at work; we see His glory.”  That is well said and the goal of our seeking, to see evidences of God at work.

I believe we see evidences of God at work.  We have recently had a talented musician who happens to be a relatively new follower of Christ serve with us on worship team, and their response was gratitude for being able to express their love for Jesus with their music.  This is only one evidence of God’s work I have seen lately.  Will you join me in praying for more evidence?

Jesus, reveal to us the evidence of the Father at work in our midst.  As you do, give us eyes to see it, and Him.  Show us Your glory.

In Christ,

Pastor Timothy