When we see God we are undone. The human language has no speech to describe Him, no object of comparison for understanding. His presence speaks to every cell in our bodies even in a physical sense that we cannot stand before Him. When He reveals Himself to us, we are in awe, yet not everyone understands. We can walk away with a realistic perspective of our own condition, or continue to trust in our abilities. We may say in our heart, “I can be like God. I can achieve a glory of my own, a purity, a goodness within myself. I will strive to attain this and as He reveals his wrath against all unrighteousness, so I will also express my righteous indignation toward all manner of sin in others when I see it. I have the ability to emulate God, and it is indeed my duty to do so.” What this human pride admires and wishes to imitate, it cannot achieve. The harder it strives to seek its own glory, the more unrighteousness it produces. It desires goodness for its own sake, not to direct praises to the only One who can receive them.
God reveals His glory and invites us to share it with Him, but not in the way of our own pride. He declared the Way, the only Way, through a God-Man; humble, serving, compassionate, obedient to humliating torture and death, naked and bleeding before all those he had loved. He prayed for God to forgive those who were mistreating Him. No place for pride could be found on this path, and He invites us to walk it with Him. When we accept by faith that God sent His Son out of love for us, to take the wrath we deserved, he then invites us to follow Him. We have a cross, a death, a share in His sufferings, and a resurrection to a new life. His eternal life abides in us when we are born of His Spirit! We receive deliverance of the bondage in our body of death that controlled our every motive and action. “In Him we breath and move and have our being. All things have become new. Old things have passed away.” – The Apostle Paul.
Then we share in His glory, basking in his love. Yet we don’t see our glory at all, only His. This is only possible when we have come to the end of ourselves and seen ourselves as we truly are – completely depraved and incapable of any good thing. “Oh Lord, be merciful to me… a sinner.”
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