Sunday, July 19, 2020
God’s Glory and Honour
Shared with Us
Psalm 8:5
Yet, Lord, you have made [humans] a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honour.
Ephesians 2:10
We are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
Words of Grace For Today
Yet … God created us a little lower than God, crowned with glory and honour.
Yet … what? What is the yet? Without looking at Psalm 8:4:
Is the yet about how sinful we are?
Is the yet about how unworthy we are?
Is the yet about how unappreciative we are?
Is the yet about how lowly other creatures/creation is created?
We really do not need to know.
We need to hear how God created us with glory and honour. Do we live that way still, today?
Can we?
Ahh, we are not left on our own. Jesus is in whom we were created, so that we could do good works … and that is how God planned for us, even before we were created!
This is our way of life (or the way of life that God created us for): that we imitate Jesus. We teach with wisdom that is not ours, it is Christ’s. We tell the old, old story with a tale that is not ours, it is Christ’s. We teach and reach out to the vulnerable with a love that is not ours, it is Christ’s. We strive for a justice with an energy and for a justice that is not ours, it is Christ’s.
We practice forgiveness with a Grace that is not ours, it is Christ’s.
We do this (we can do all this only) because Jesus has done it first for us.
The glory and honour we were created for is not our own. It is the gift of the Holy Spirit that we share in Christ’s glory and honour.
It is the same for each person we will meet each day. We are all only mirrors of Christ’ glory and honour.
So we sing each day the Hallelujah Anyhow.