THE GLORY OF GOD

Blessed Ezekiel! He tells us, "God grabbed me by the shoulder and said, "Get up...Go out on the plain. I want to talk with you."" (Eze.3:22)

Ezekiel did get up and went out on the plain. At first Ezekiel didn't really want to get mixed up with God,having no desire to get into trouble with the authorities, but he finally went and saw...The Glory of God!

Sure sounds wonderful, doesn't it? Well God has never grabbed me by the shoulder or any other body part for I am not a prophet. Nor have I seen the Glor of God as it came to Ezekiel. But because I have studied the new testament, also, I remember Jesus telling His disciples to go and tell the world about Him. Will that enable me to see the Glory of God?

Now those who follow Jesus today and are not one of Jesus first disciples are probably not capable, as I am not, of those miraculous changes those first disciples made. But we have been "ordained" through the scriptures to "go and do likewise."

My efforts to do this are late in coming and extremely minor in comparison. Nothing I might do could compare with the work of the Magnificant Eleven!! But God loves me and loves whatever attempt I might make to heal the world. I must trust the Holy Spirit to use my smile and my actions when words don't seem appropriate. And kindness is good. Even just being there is sometimes the best a person today can do. Promising to pray for someone, enjoying a loaugh together, forgiving "rough edges" so like my own, can be "doing likewise" as we have been instructed.

I'll be listening wiith my heart and looking with my mind for the Glory of God. It may not look like it did for Ezekiel, but it will be there. I'm sure of it! A smile returned, a friend healing, a thank you for prayer...all these and more represent the Glory of God. I'm sure of it! Right? Jesus?

Someday we will all behold...like Ezekiel...God in ALL of His Glory! Amen

Love to the whole world, jo