Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.

by John Mark Comer

There was something categorically different about the cloud in the temple, but kavod is everywhere. You can’t limit it or contain it or schedule it or pigeonhole it or brand it or claim it or control it or run from it. All you can do is close your eyes and live blind; or open your eyes and end up face down on the floor. It was the prophet Habakkuk who said that we’re heading toward a world where “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.”4 So right now, not everybody knows about God’s kavod; some people are blind and oblivious, but in the near future, everybody will know about it. Because the awareness of God’s kavod will fill the earth like the waters cover the sea. Now, in the meantime, what does all this talk about glory have to do with work, rest, and humanness?