Made for the Glory of God

So, it’s not a whole lot that I wanted to share, but as I was going through my Bible study it just jumped out at me (it’s pretty cool how God does that sometimes, isn’t it?)

So okay, the Nooma guy’s basic point was that we are the reference point for the lost and dying world around us to see God, right? So get this. Isaiah 43:7 says, “All who claim me as their God will come, for I have made them for my glory. It was I who created them.” The Bible study I am doing is by Beth Moore, and she brings up this great question—what does that mean? Define glory, God’s glory. And I start going through these Bible verses that she gives about His glory and you discover that in some ways, it’s really undefinable.

Isaiah 6:3/Numbers 20:6/2 Chronicles 5:13-14/Psalm 19:1/Psalm 29:9/Isaiah 42:8
John 1:14/John 2:11/Hebrews 1:3/2 Peter 1:3

And after reading all of these and writing out how it seems to me that glory can be defined according to each verse, it seems that God’s glory is, as simply put as possible, His representation of himself. As Beth Moore puts it, “God’s glory is the way He makes Himself recognizable.”

Then we put two and two together and come up with this wonderful concept—that if God’s glory is the way He shows himself, the means by which He makes himself recognizable, and we are created FOR HIS GLORY, then that means that, essentially, He made us in order to show Himself IN us and THROUGH us.

Which basically is the same thing that the video was talking about.
And pretty darn cool if you ask me. Psalm 19:11 says that the Heavens display the glory of God, and Isaiah 6:3 says that the whole earth is filled with His glory, and I guess it just makes you feel pretty good that He made us for glory, too.