A canopy of stars watches over us day and night. The source did not identify the location, but I have seen a similar rock formation in Arches National Park, Utah. This photo is courtesy of pxhere.com, a website that offers non-copyrighted images.

July 13, 2023 / 0 comments

World Full of Glory

On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare
    a feast of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
    the best of meats and the finest of wines.
On this mountain he will destroy
    the shroud that enfolds all peoples,
the sheet that covers all nations;
    he will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
    from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
    from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.

  • Isaiah 25:6-8

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

  • Revelation 21:1-4

“They say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say ‘Let me but have this and I’ll take the consequences’ little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.”

  • C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

C. S. Lewis prefaces this book with a warning, as he did with The Screwtape Letters.  In this case, Lewis says that we should not take this book as revelation, but rather one person’s idea of what might be.

Yet, in this one quote from the book, there is some sort of justice in what he wrote.  For those who reject God and God’s love, it is quite possible that all those things in their lives will become contaminated by the sin that could never be washed away.  They refused the source of that cleansing.

Yet, for those who accept the blood of Christ which washes away all sins, everything in our lives then points to that moment.  The sins point toward the cleansing.  The punishment, inherent in the sin or external from getting caught, point toward the work of the Holy Spirit to show us the consequences of our sin.  And then the Joys of life, those free of sin, show that life could and is wonderful when sin is not part of it.

All then that needs to happen is to remove the thought of ever sinning again.

Thank you, Jesus, for we can truly see Your Grace and Your Glory in everything we do, hear, taste, smell, touch, and see.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.

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