Glory
By Linda and Richard Eyre
Note: Each week this column provides a short
essay on one particular aspect or facet of the Lord’s personality
and character. It is intended that the reader focus
on this facet while partaking of the sacrament this Sunday.
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It has been said that the glory of God is intelligence. What
a remarkable statement — remarkable when we come to realize
that Christ is different from man not in kind, but
in degree. He is not of a different species, but
rather he is the epitome, the maximum of the same
species.
God’s glory, Christ’s glory, which sets them so far above us,
springs not from their differences from us but from their
similarities with us, form their successful completion
of the very experiences we are now undergoing.
All great prophets — from ancient times to modern times, from
east to west — have tried (as far as mere words will allow)
to describe, or at least to declare, the glory of
God. In other words, any who have glimpsed the majesty of
God or Christ or of their kingdoms because so overwhelmed
that, from then on, they praise and voice the Lord’s glory.
Those of us who are just beginning to know the Savior can begin
to feel His glory as we read His words. As we do we should
try to realize that even as celestial glory now surrounds
Him on His heavenly throne, so also did a certain glory
surround him in His carpentry shop, and on Peter’s boat,
and on the dusty road to Jerusalem.
His glory lies in what He knows, in His comprehension of
the elements and the spirit, and in his oneness with the
Father.
More than that, His glory lies in the great and eternal cause
that He shares with the Father — the cause of bringing to
pass “the immortality and eternal life of man.”
Starting next week, we will devote four columns (the next four weeks) to the marvelously perfect priorities of Christ,
in the hopes that what is most important to Him is also what is most important
to us.
