No love is more important to us than the love of God himself. Beyond the love of spouse or parent or friend is the significance of the love of God. Nothing matters more to us than to know that the God of heaven loves us—and that in his character, he is indeed a God of love.
At the most fundamental level, the term “glory” speaks of the excellence of God himself: his worth and his beauty, the perfection of his character, his holiness and his power. But this language is also used to speak of the visible display of God’s worth and majesty—the visible expression of the fact that this glorious God is present.
“That teaching was so practical!” We have all heard it, but it is often unclear what it means. Depending on how you define it, practical can mean everything from parenting how-tos to the finer points of systematic theology. And what Sunday school teacher and youth worker doesn’t want to be practical in a world that is so distracted and challenging to navigate? And yet we who live in the shadow of the failed project called modernity are so prone to worshipping our methods and pragmatics that a word of caution may be needed when we want to be “practical.” Perhaps...
At the most fundamental level, the term “glory” speaks of the excellence of God himself: his worth and his beauty, the perfection of his character, his holiness and his power. But this language is also used to speak of the visible display of God’s worth and majesty—the visible expression of the fact that this glorious God is present.
