or does the world? We've been spending the last number of months looking at the God who exists, created, is three persons in one God, communicates, redeems, adopts, and judges. Does this God have a stronger and heavier influence on you than the world? In the Old Testament the word for 'glory' literally means heavy or having a weightiness. Is God glorious in your eyes? He is glorious whether you think so or not, but He wants us to see the size and the weight of His glory for what it really is...and that is utterly life changing.Consider this quote from David Wells, "It is one of the defining marks of Our Time that God is now weightless. I do not mean by this that he is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant. He rests upon the world so inconsequentially as not to be noticeable. He has lost his saliency for human life. Those who assure the pollsters of their belief in God'’s existence may nonetheless consider him less interesting than television, his commands less authoritative than their appetites for affluence and influence, his judgment no more awe-inspiring than the evening news, and his truth less compelling than the advertisers'’ sweet fog of flattery and lies. That is weightlessness. It is a condition we have assigned him after having nudged him out to the periphery of our secularized life. Weightlessness tells us nothing about God but everything about ourselves, about our condition, about our psychological disposition to exclude God from our reality."
What does your life and message tell the world about God? What does it tell the world about yourself?
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