INEED GODS GLORY ISWARE EVERYTANG ALLBAD FOR ME :( And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.—Exodus 33:18. HAT WAS A large request to make. He could not have asked for more: I beseech thee, show me thy glory. Why, it is the greatest petition that man ever asked of God. It seems to me the greatest stretch of faith that I have either heard or read of. It was great faith which made Abraham go into the plain to offer up intercession for a guilty city like Sodom. It was vast faith which enabled Jacob to grasp the angel; it was mighty faith which enabled Elijah to rend the heavens and fetch down rain from skies which had been like brass before; but it appears to me that this prayer contains a greater amount of faith than all the others put together. It is the greatest request that man could make to God: I beseech thee, show me thy glory. Had he requested a fiery chariot to whirl him up to heaven; had he asked to cleave the water-floods and drown the chivalry of a nation; had he prayed the Almighty to send fire from heaven to consume whole armies, I could have found a parallel to his prayer; but when he offers this petition, I beseech thee, show me thy glory, he stands alone, a giant among giants; a Colossus even in those days of mighty men. His request surpasses that of any other man: I beseech thee, show me thy glory. Among the lofty peaks and summits of mans prayers that rise like mountains to the skies, this is the culminating point; this is the highest elevation that faith ever gained: it is the loftiest place to which the great ambition of faith could climB
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