Kindle Notes & Highlights
We were made to hear the commendation of God spoken over us, but we are condemned before God. The beauty we were made to reflect is obscured by our inner corruption. And the greatness of ruling over creation with God is frustrated by our weaknesses, suffering, and death. Our greatest need is to have that glory restored to us.
God will make a way to renew his commendation over us, restore his image in us, and reclaim lost greatness for us. But our reaching for glory will not bring about this transformation. No, God will come to us, and it will be his work, not ours. It is reaching that robbed us of this glory in the first place. Grasping for glory is the one sure way to miss it.
May we who have come to live under the affirmation of our God and Father, and who are zealous for his honor among all peoples, gladly give ourselves to his mission, risking the status of outcast so that others might be brought into the enjoyment of his grace and glory now and forevermore. And as we ready ourselves to lose the glory that comes from men, may we love and eagerly anticipate the glory that comes from God. Amen.
