Since my husband has done all of the blogging so far, I have decided to try one myself. I am really not sure what I am doing so hopefully this will be posted. For my job I am usually driving in my car 300+ miles a week. This leaves a lot of time to listen to music, talk radio (Glenn Beck/Hannity), the news, or talk on the phone (with those people who are not working or are working and get in trouble!! ha). I spend a lot of my time listening to Praise and Worship music. I have heard all of my P&W cd's about 50,000 times and sometimes they get old, but sometimes God brings new meaning to the words in a song. One song that really struck me this past week was a song about the GLORY of God.

The line in the song that kept replaying in my head is actually a bible verse. "Holy is the Lord God Almight, the Earth is filled with his Glory". This line in the song comes from

Psalm 72:19...."Praise be to his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory."

I began to think about what Glory actually means. It is heard so often in "Christian lingo", but what does it mean?? The dictionary describles Glory as " very great praise, honor, or distinction bestowed by common consent; renown, splendid beauty or magnificance". I think that this definition is pretty accurate for describing the Glory of God. I would describe God's Glory as awesome and great, something that is powerful and yet a little hard to grasp. One example that sticks out in my head is Moses. In Exodus 33: 19-23 Moses asks God to "show him his Glory". God responds by saying, "...you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live...you will see my back; but my face must not be seen". Glory is a sacred thing, a holy thing. I guess in this sense we will have to wait till heaven to see God's full Glory.

So back to my song....I think that when the verse states "the earth is filled with his Glory" there are two meanings to this line. The first and most obvious reason is that the earth is filled with a supernatural glory that is awesome, great, powerful, renown, splendid, and beautiful. This glory is something you can not physically touch. It is something that as a christian you are aware of. The second type of glory(the type that God keeps bringing to my mind) is US, christians living on the Earth, His chosen people. We are his Glory!! As christians we are physically on this earth to honor Him with our lives by serving and blessing others. This glorifys God to the fullest. So to say that the earth is full of Gods glory is literal in a sense. We his followers are filling the earth (or striving to fill) the Earth with God's Glory. So next time you hear that verse or song, remember...we are God's Glory, his prized posessions, daughters and sons!!!! Each one of us brings Glory to him in our own unique way!!!!