Wake Up!
How can you have so much you want to share about the scriptures you have read, referencing God’s glory throughout the Bible, and then being hit with writer’s block?
Maybe it has taken some time to order my thoughts. There is part of me that is awed by reading familiar verses in a new context.
Even writing now, I am not sure where I want to start.
You see there are two Hebrew words used to describe God’s glory in the Bible:
Kavod: The root of the word means heaviness, both physically and in terms of impact. It is about honour, implying strength, battle, a heaviness becoming light, and victory.
Shekinah: Meaning God’s presence, the tangible presence of God, the manifestation of God to us, dwelling with us.
Over the weeks I have been looking at God’s glory throughout the Bible; I have purposefully been identifying whether the original text referred to God’s kavod or shekinah glory.
Psalms particularly came to life when applying the filter of the kavod glory of God, making the words more powerful as I read them. David’s, and other Psalmist’s writing, really connect with the power and authority that God has, and that it is He who reigns.
Here is an example:
Psalm 24:7-8
Lift up you heads, O gates, And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the king of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle!
In the message version, the verse reads “wake up”.
The whole of this chapter calls us to wake up, to look up, to see the King of Kings. To recognise God, to see Him in His full splendour and majesty, to see him in full glory!
If I could shake you right now then that is what I would do!! ‘WAKE UP’
If we have no understanding of the glory that God wants to display here on Earth, in our time and our generation, we limit God’s goodness to a whole generation of people searching for something or someone and their whole meaning in life.
If our story is not full of overcoming and victory in the day to day of life, then how can we share, tell or even begin to express who God is to those who don’t know Him? There must be a story that says I prayed and surrendered this issue/problem/situation to God, and this is the victory I won.
So wake up!! Surrender your daily life to God and allow your story to become that of God’s glory in life.
written by Lois Evans