The bottom line call for tomorrow is for Christians to embrace that which we have been given. We have been given the gift of the glory of God. We have been given the gift of Jesus, God's only Son, the glory of a Son to his Father, the glory of a Daughter to her Mother, the glory of a Son to his Mother, the glory of a Daughter to her Father...as we desperately look for language as limited, created beings to begin to try and capture what it means to be God. It's never enough.
What is the glory of God? It is who Jesus is for us. It is what Jesus has done for us. We are sinful, fallen beings. Our relationship to God has been broken in every person who has walked in God's creation. We can point back to Adam and Eve and Original Sin as the origin, but each one of us carries our own guilt for transgressing the law of love...love God and love Neighbor.
We can be like mirrors of the glory of God. We can reflect the love of Jesus, the love that led him to surrender his life on our behalf. We can shine with meaning in a world desperate for it. We can shine with purpose in a world that keeps adding more and more and more to our plate of experiences.
We need to be blown away to realize once again that "Jesus loves me....ME..." And we need to absorb that joy into our souls so that we can reflect that love when we come face to face with others. And God has a way of sending us those people who really need what we have to offer. The glory of God that I reflect can become the glory of God they can reflect in turn.
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