This week: God as Glory. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com].
God as glory is visible in the bowing and bending God's people do each and every
day as we serve one another - care for one another - offer our lives up on behalf
of others. Glory! Sure we can be taken up by the Glory of God's creation that is
on display every day - it is wonderful. And yet, too often, God's glory is just
that - put off onto something other than us - something 'out there'. If not out
into creation, it is put off out and beyond death. But God as glory is God who
abides with us as us - as that other person - as me in the middle of the stuff I
do everyday. God as glory shines each time a person steps over a barrier that for
some reason has been set up to separate me from you. Glory shines when we defy our
biases and our fears and act as though the Glory of the Lord is lifting us all into
a new life. I know that it is overwhelming to me to hear and see people being a
part of this glorious presence. It is not hard to see and hear though. It is right
there when the grace and mercy and peace of God is made visible in human ways so
that glory is no longer merely something 'out there' and removed from this moment
- this day - this life that is mine and yours.
O God of love and new life, let your Glory shine among us. Amen.
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