Thoughts for another day
June 25, 2010
Today's verse: Rom. 3:23. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
When Adam was created, he was pristine in all that God in His love, accorded to Him. His nature was holy and pure. He had direct access to and could commune face-to-face with God. Then he sinned and God banished him from His Presence. Adam became a ‘pariah’ as it were; an outcaste of the Kingdom of God. But God in His mercy didn’t destroy him, keeping him alive until the day of Jesus Christ when he would again have the privilege of communing with God; because Christ through His own sacrifice bridged the gap there was between God and man.
God’s glory in all its magnificence was God’s gift to man and it was only under the condition that man would remain pure and holy in all his ways. Sadly, it wasn’t so. God wanted that His glory become the clothing of man but by sinning man unclothed himself of this glory and lost the beautiful companionship God wanted with him.
The glory of God isn’t just anything that man beholds every day. Moses entreated the Lord to show him His glory (Ex. 33:18) for he knew what it meant. It is like a beautiful atmosphere where every negative is forgotten. Every pain just melts in the warmth of love divine. Every evil thought is destroyed and washed away by streams of unceasing pleasure that emanate from the greatest lover of man: God Almighty Himself! Imagine the ecstasy and the passion one can experience in the unbounded passion of the Most High when He manifests every desirable passion to His great love – man. Alas, we’ve never understood how greatly God loves us. It’s a disgraceful thing that all of us have sinned and are short of the glory of God; but mind you, the blood of Jesus enables us to once again be lost in the glory of the Lord God of hosts and be refined by His love for us.
June 25, 2010
Today's verse: Rom. 3:23. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
When Adam was created, he was pristine in all that God in His love, accorded to Him. His nature was holy and pure. He had direct access to and could commune face-to-face with God. Then he sinned and God banished him from His Presence. Adam became a ‘pariah’ as it were; an outcaste of the Kingdom of God. But God in His mercy didn’t destroy him, keeping him alive until the day of Jesus Christ when he would again have the privilege of communing with God; because Christ through His own sacrifice bridged the gap there was between God and man.
God’s glory in all its magnificence was God’s gift to man and it was only under the condition that man would remain pure and holy in all his ways. Sadly, it wasn’t so. God wanted that His glory become the clothing of man but by sinning man unclothed himself of this glory and lost the beautiful companionship God wanted with him.
The glory of God isn’t just anything that man beholds every day. Moses entreated the Lord to show him His glory (Ex. 33:18) for he knew what it meant. It is like a beautiful atmosphere where every negative is forgotten. Every pain just melts in the warmth of love divine. Every evil thought is destroyed and washed away by streams of unceasing pleasure that emanate from the greatest lover of man: God Almighty Himself! Imagine the ecstasy and the passion one can experience in the unbounded passion of the Most High when He manifests every desirable passion to His great love – man. Alas, we’ve never understood how greatly God loves us. It’s a disgraceful thing that all of us have sinned and are short of the glory of God; but mind you, the blood of Jesus enables us to once again be lost in the glory of the Lord God of hosts and be refined by His love for us.
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