He Bestows His Glory

I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever; with my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, “Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens.” 

“I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn to My servant David: ‘Your seed I will establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah

And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O Lord; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints. For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the Lord? God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be held in reverence by all those around Him. O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty like You, O Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You. You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, You still them. You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one who is slain; You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm. The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; the world and all its fullness, You have founded them. The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in Your name. You have a mighty arm; strong is Your hand, and high is Your right hand. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and truth go before Your face. Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all day long, and in Your righteousness they are exalted. For You are the glory of their strength, and in Your favor our horn is exalted.

Psalm 68:1-17

God alone is worthy of heaven. 

“At this also my heart trembles, and leaps from its place. Hear attentively the thunder of His voice, and the rumbling that comes from His mouth. He sends it forth under the whole heaven, His lightning to the ends of the earth. After it a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, and He does not restrain them when His voice is heard. God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend."

Job 37:1-5

Heaven cannot contain God’s glory; it thunders as His glory overflows beyond the borders of Heaven. God alone is worthy of Heaven and yet Heaven in all of its expanse cannot contain Him.

He claps His hands and causes the clouds to thunder. 

We cannot comprehend Heaven’s reactions to God’s glory. How much more do we fall short of understanding God. Every movement of the train of God’s robe causes the Heavens to tremble. Only God in His glory is worthy to dwell in the place that His glory overwhelms. He fills the expanse of Heaven with His glory, so that only He is worthy of Heaven, then He stretches His glory beyond Heaven’s borders. And yet in the midst of all His glory, He bestows His glory on one of the tiny creatures He made.

He comes and sits with you.

God didn’t choose to fill the planets or galaxies with His glory; He knelt down and made mankind in His image. As tiny as we are compared to the earth, universe, and Heavens, we posses a measure of God’s glory that the rest of creation lacks. We must recognize how awesome it is that God’s glory dwells in us. His glory makes us worthy of Heaven as He shines through us as His glory oozes out of us.