Last
week Michael examined the glory of God. This week he'll look at why we
should pray for God's glory. Why are your sins forgiven? The reason
is for His namesake ... for His glory. If our Christianity rests on
anything else, then it's Humanism, not Christianity. The problems are not
in the Church, the body and bride of Christ, which God called to be spotless
because of the perfect payment of Jesus Christ's innocent blood. The
problem is in the perception of the so-called “church”. Christianity
cannot be understood in light of Humanism because they are diametrically to
each other. The philosophy of Humanism is "the glory of
Man." The root of Humanism is the devil's original lie that he told
Eve in the Garden of Eden, "You
shall be as God knowing good from evil." The truth of the “Word
of God” focuses on the glory of God rather than the glory of man.
The glory of God must be understood in light of "substance" or weight
according to the Word of God. The adversary Satan's job is to deceive “the
elect of God”. If we see according to the eyes of the flesh instead of the eyes
of the spirit of Christ in us, we will be deceived. Because we pray doesn't
mean we're doing the “right” thing in the eyes of the Lord. Prayer is aligning
our heart with God's heart, not vice versa. If we pray like the prideful Pharisee,
"I'm glad I'm not like those sinners
over there," our prayer is not a righteous prayer. Prayer must be
according to the glory of God in order to be effective. The promises of
God are an offer to accept the terms and conditions of His promise. “Believing
action” according to the Word of God is the only way to accept the promise of
God. Our righteousness is in the strength of our Lord Jesus Christ ... His
strength is made perfect in our weakness.
When
the Children of Israel refused to enter into the Promised Land because they did
not believe that God would deliver their enemies into their hands, who did
Moses pray for? Moses did not pray for the people; rather he prayed that
God would uphold the honor of His own glory. God revealed to Moses that he
did not need to pray as a priest on behalf of the people to intercede for them.
Rather he needed to understand that everything is insignificant compared to the
glory of God. The glory is not to judge the unrighteousness people. Rather
the glory is for God to judge according to His own righteousness glory. Paul
prayed that "the eyes of your
understanding being enlightened that ye may know the hope of your calling...and
the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.” The
understanding is to know the riches of God's glory ... His inheritance in us.
Our
prayer needs to be that God sends his power at the right time and place for His
honor and glory. Tribulation and trials are so that we can understand the
glory of God to deliver, and that we are but dust compared to the awesome power
of His own glory.
Psalm
107:1-9 “Oh, give thanks to
the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. Let
the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the
hand of the enemy, and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the
west, from the north and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness
in a desolate way; They found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their
soul fainted in them. Then they cried out to the Lord in their
trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses. And He led them
forth by the right way, that they might go to a city for a dwelling place. Oh,
that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His
wonderful works to the children of men! For He satisfies the longing soul,
and fills the hungry soul with goodness.”
Let's continue michael's Message on "Glory to God" on the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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