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God's Divine Glory Returns

Psalm 24  The Message

A David Psalm

24 ^1-2 God claims Earth and everything in it,
    God claims World and all who live on it.
He built it on Ocean foundations,
    laid it out on River girders.

^3-4 Who can climb Mount God?
    Who can scale the holy north-face?
Only the clean-handed,
    only the pure-hearted;
Men who won’t cheat,
    women who won’t seduce.

^5-6 God is at their side;
    with God’s help they make it.
This, Jacob, is what happens
    to God-seekers, God-questers.

⁷ Wake up, you sleepyhead city!
Wake up, you sleepyhead people!
    King-Glory is ready to enter.

⁸ Who is this King-Glory?
    God, armed
    and battle-ready.

⁹ Wake up, you sleepyhead city!
Wake up, you sleepyhead people!
    King-Glory is ready to enter.

¹⁰ Who is this King-Glory?
    God-of-the-Angel-Armies:
    he is King-Glory.

 
For Reflection

The King of Glory, the unseen and unseeable God.

In a land filled with images of all sorts of Gods, songs as this one fly in the face of those who worship other gods.  Multiple gods of the harvest and gods of fertility, gods of war and many others were worshiped.  Each god was thought to bring some special privilege to those who prayed.  The gods explained the inexplicable and justified human behavior.

But the God of Israel is not god of self-justification.  The God of Israel is is a God of redemption, salvation and transformation.  God is the God of all things.  God can not be seen directly.  God is seen indirectly in all of God's creation.  Only the God of Israel has the power to transform the world.  God is seen in God seekers.

Pray
to seek God.  Pray that the glory which surrounds God seekers will reveal the paths to peace, justice and compassion.