Friday, November 29 The Light of His Glory One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple. Psalm 27:4 Recommended Reading Psalm 73:16-17, 23-28 At a meeting of the Socratic Club in Oxford, England, in 1945, the Christian apologist C. S. Lewis said, I believe that the Sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else. In his biography of C. S. Lewis, Alister McGrath explains what Lewis meant: We can look at the sun itself; or we can look instead at what it illuminates -- thus enlarging our intellectual, moral, and aesthetic vision. We see the true, the good, and the beautiful more clearly by being given a lens that brings them into focus.1 The psalmist Asaph had a similar enlightening experience. He was confused and frustrated about the prosperity of evildoers in the world -- Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end (Psalm 73:17). When he went to the temple to worship God, suddenly he saw the answer -- the answer was God! Somehow, when we worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness (Psalm 29:2), life looks different. We worship God not only because He is God but because we see everything else more clearly in the light of His glory. In the light of God, human vision clears. James Philip 1Alister McGrath, C. S. Lewis: A Life—Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2013), 277. Read-Thru-the-Bible 1 Corinthians 1-4
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