Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from Gordon Mote singing his celebration of His glory … Don’t Let Me Miss the Glory … poignantly and powerfully singing of what we all should pray for and pursue … to see God’s glory in this darkened and decaying planet.
=============
Highlight Verse[s]: Revelation 21:5a [NLT] …
5 And the One sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!
… One day He will make all things new. Until then we should be aware when He shows us glimpses of His glory.
==============
Highlight Passage [context]: Revelation 21:1-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God reveals to the Prophet and to us that He is in the process of making all things new for His glory.
=============
Reference Passage [NLT] : … Romans 8:18-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Right now God only gives us a foretaste of the glory to come when He returns for His Bride and remakes the whole of creation for us.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Alyson Kieda, used personal observations to illustrate how we need to take in and recognize the glimpses of God’s glory to come when He makes this world over at the return of the Bridegroom for His Bride. The ODB author wrote: Gazing out my open study window, I hear birds chirping and hear and see the wind gently blowing in the trees. Bales of hay dot my neighbor’s newly tilled field, and large, white cumulus clouds stand out in contrast to the brilliant blue sky.
I’m enjoying a little bit of paradise—except for the almost incessant noise of the traffic that runs past our property and the slight ache in my back. I use the word paradise lightly because though our world was once completely good, it no longer is.
I don’t think anyone would disagree that the evidence is all around us that this world which God created in perfection (see Genesis 2); mankind has messed it up royally (see Genesis 3). And most certainly, thru our history we can see our world decaying all around us.
But thru all of this, as Gordon Mote sings, we need to look around us and see glimpses of God’s glory in creation and in moments of glory He sends our way. Because in these remnant glances of glory we see God’s promise that He’s going to make all things new for His Son [see the highlight passage from Revelation]. Yes, Jesus created it all for the Father’s glory and for our pleasure as His Bride.
My friends, one day the Bridegroom, i.e., King Jesus, is going to return for His Bride and He will do the grand makeover for us and for His Father’s glory. And we, who are His bride, will spend eternity in that remade creation.
… Do I sense a grand "HALLELUJAH?!"
My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Dear Lord, … Don’t let me miss whatever parts of Your Glory today that You’re willing to show me today. … Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled Our Daily Bread, distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
No comments:
Post a Comment