Friday, September 30, 2005
Two Vivid Phrases from Debbie Blue’s Sermon “Glory Doesn’t Shine…”
The first vivid phrase that I chose from Debbie Blue’s sermon “Glory Doesn’t Shine……” was found at the end of paragraph 5 and said, “Could a God like that possibly help us, care for us, love us? A God obsessed with being worshiped, obsessed with glory, his beauty, his muscles, his hair?” The answer is simply “yes.” He is the God of the heavens and of the earth. He is ruler over everything seen and unseen because He is the only and ultimate creator of absolutely all of it. He made us in his very own image and likeness so of course he’s going to help us, care for us, and love us! If he had no intentions of doing so, why on EARTH would he bother making something that didn’t matter to him? It would be a waste of time. Also, the Lord is obsessed with being worshiped and glorified because we OWE it to him! We would not be here if it wasn’t for him and his goodness to us so of course we need to direct our praise right back at him in thanksgiving for giving us life in him.
The second vivid phrase says, “We’d rather have our glory system than to be just out there needing. Needing God. In whatever we do, we look for praise, for glory, for recognition because we feel that we are owed it for accomplishing something good. We want to appear raised up, in a sense, in front of our peers in order to feel distinguished. But the truth is, there is nothing we can do on our own to gain that sort of status. It is only through God’s grace that we can get past our naturally sinful state as humans and succeed in what we do. We NEED the Lord.