GloryGod's glory. Uniquely His. Staggering. As close to the sound of Him, as close to the appearance of Him as I can be this side of actually embracing Him.
Glory is to God what style is to an artist. A painting by Vermeer, a sonnet by Donne, a Mozart aria -- each is so rich with the style of the one who made it that to the connoisseur it couldn't have been made by anybody else, and the effect is staggering. The style of an artist brings you as close to the sound of his voice and the light in his eye as it is possible to get this side of actually shaking hands with him.
The analogy falls short, of course, but there's something I love about it. To "see" God as supremely all things -- supremely loving, supremely holy, supremely faithful, supremely gentle, supremely grace-lavishing, supremely forgiving, supremely sacrificing, supremely good, supremely wise, supremely understanding, supremely protective, supremely compassionate, supremely supreme -- makes His intangibility tangible to me. What I'm saying is, it enables me to see that I will never be able to grasp just how infinitely glorious He is. And so, in his glorious intangibility, he becomes breathtaking.
Unique. Staggering. Breathtaking. Like a Van Gogh painting or a John Donne sonnet.
Only infinitely exponentially moreso.
3 comments:
You don't know me (I'm friends with Virginia and Kim) but I met you at the craft bazaar and immediately liked you...and now I stalk you? Sorry, this is all a little "bizarre" now;) Anyway, I love your blog. I have to tell you, you all have such a beautiful group of believers at your church. It is a rare picture of how the body works. Plus, it's just concentrated loveliness over there. I think every person I've met there has been so warm and kind.
I love this post, Laura. It reminds me of a thought I had last summer taking Debbie Landry's bible study. I'm fascinated by God's dynamic ways. He's supremely supreme, like you said. AND he's also my best friend in the whole world. He laughs with me, cries with me, holds my hand and through it all he's still so much higher than the highest can get. I find my approachability to him so relatively easy whereas it seems, logically speaking that is, that it shouldn't be that way. But what is so cool, is that it IS that way! Glory! Thank you for reminding me of His glory and where I belong.
did a paper on vermeer last year.
studying donne now in lyric poetry.
playing a mozart concerto in my senior recital.
all breathtakingly beautiful.
truly none can compare to our God.
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