Glory Beyond Comprehension

God's glory exceeds the understanding of all who look up Him. Incomprehensible is the manifest glory of God, and yet He has made himself known to all through His creation, through His Word, and even in the hearts of men He has written His law. God's glory is beyond comprehension, yet all who receive Him and believe in His name, become children of God beholding His glory.

Why the transcendent Commander of all things, who is great and glorious beyond measure, has set His affection upon His bride, the church, is beyond me. Don't misunderstand. I rejoice in the truth of God's holy condescension. I rejoice that God has let His glory be known, and I exalt His merciful-compassion. Yet there is a mystery to such grace. Awe, wonder, and joy reside in the undimmed magnificence of God, in the face of Jesus Christ. As a member of the body of Christ, united to Christ by faith, I stand with an awe-struck veneration of the glorious One choosing inglorious me.

Which leads to rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, knowing that one day His bride will be shrouded in His glory. God's glory, beyond comprehension, will surround those whom He has cleansed through Jesus Christ. Isaiah 4:5 paints this beautiful scene, "Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy." Covering over the glory that God places around His people will be a canopy providing an environment of intimate love, where the Lord of glory bathes His bride in oceans of love. Through the blood of Christ, His bride's sins are cleansed allowing eternal pleasures to be enjoyed forevermore by those who once stood as the inglorious enemies of the immortal God.

The self-disclosure of God is good news beyond comprehension. His ways are inscrutable and His judgments unsearchable. Though we do not yet see Him, we know that His glory is beyond measure. Therefore, as God has said, 'let light shine out of darkness' and has shone, in the hearts of those who believe, the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, let us then cry out, "Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."--Psalm 73:25, 26