Filling the earth with His glory

May 12

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We have prayer meetings every Tuesday night at the church I go to, and as I was at prayer last night I kept thinking about “Holy, holy, holy, the whole earth is full of His glory” and then I had a crystal clear thought come to me that I had to write down. We’ve been talking a lot about holiness and righteousness at church, so this really settled into my spirit, and I thank God that He saw fit to share this with me.

“And one cried to another and said: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!’” (Isaiah 6:3, NKJV)

The whole earth is full of His glory. Who is in the earth? We are. So I think there is a call for us to be glorious before God, so we can fill the earth with His glory.

But how do we “fill the earth with His glory”? How do we become glorious before God?

I believe we display the glory of the Lord by leading lives of holiness and righteousness. Lives without compromise. I believe that God makes us glorious as we humble ourselves, and as we submit to Him, leading lives that are wholly holy (the dictionary defines wholly as “entirely” and “fully”), and righteous (right-living) before God.

I believe that if we are 100% wholly sold out to Jesus Christ — uncompromised, unapologetic (to the world), complete and utter love slaves to our Saviour and Redeemer, that we glorify God with our lives. I’m not saying we become glorified — we don’t. To say that we are glorious is to tread dangerous New Age thinking. No, we are not glorified. The whole earth isn’t full of our glory, but we were called to fill the earth (“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28, NKJV)), and we need to start filling it with His glory. I believe we were called to more than just dominion over the fish and animals — we were called to fill the earth with His glory! We become vessels of honour as we are filled with the Holy Spirit and live righteous, holy, pleasing lives before Him.
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Christ is our example

May 02

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A few weeks ago at a Tuesday night prayer meeting, one of the members of the church was exhorting us about imitating Christ. He gave two scriptures:

“Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.” – 1 Corinthians 11:1 (NKJV)

“For to this you were called because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: ‘Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth,’ who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously;” – 1 Peter 2:21-23 (NKJV)

This is a lofty thing to aspire to. Imitate Christ? He who was perfect and without sin? How can we possibly do something like that?
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