If I am honest, I have a harder time accepting my “glory” than my sinfulness. This reading from John Eldridge’s Restoration Year, encourages me to believe and accept that I have a glory…
In that day the LORD of hosts will become a beautiful crown and a glorious diadem to the remnant of His people. ISAIAH 28:5 NASB
Earlier in the Story, back in the beginning of our time on earth, a great glory was bestowed upon us. All of us men and women were created in the image of God. Fearfully and wonderfully made, as the saying goes. Living icons of the living God.
Those who have ever stood before him fall to their knees without even thinking, as you find yourself breathless before the Grand Canyon or a sunrise. That glory was shared with us. All that you ever wished you could be, you were-and more. We were glorious.
I dare say we’ve heard a bit about original sin, but not nearly enough about original glory, which comes before sin and is deeper to our nature. We were crowned with glory and honor. Why does a woman long to be beautiful? Why does a man hope to be found brave? Because we remember, if only faintly, that we were once more than we are now.
God created you in his image, with the ability to reason, to create, to share intimacy, to know joy. He gives you laughter and wonder and imagination. And above all else, he endows you with that one quality for which he is most known. He enables you to love.
Do you think about your story as starting with sin and brokenness or do you think about your story as beginning with a great glory bestowed on you? A glory Jesus is even now restoring?
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