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My Good In His Glory

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When Moses asks to see God’s glory, God says, “I’ll cause all my goodness to pass before you.” Moses asks to see God’s glory and He shows Moses His goodness.

We want God’s glory to be revealed because Jesus said, “If I am lifted up, I will draw all people to myself.” We want Him lifted up because we want all people to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus. God desires all to be saved and so do we.

We want God’s glory on display because we want people to see Him. We want them to look to Him and be saved.

He displays His glory in nature in numerous ways, but He also shines His glory through showing His goodness to you! When you have a testimony of God’s goodness in your life, you are showing off His glory.

But there’s another way our good is for His glory. Jesus said to His disciples, “Let your light shine that men might see your GOOD works and glorify God.” We’re also told to do our good works in secret. We diligently serve God by loving others without fanfare, but when we are shining God’s light through our good works, the Father will set our lamp on the lampstand.

The lamp doesn’t put itself on the lampstand, its owner does. The lamp gives no light; it just holds it. The light in us is Christ and the Father wants to reveal His glory.

The Trial and the Blessing

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The Lord has been giving me a lot of lessons through the blessings He has given me. It feels a lot better than the lessons learned through the trials. But I’ve also come to see that the two, the blessings and the trials, are closely related.

God is Lord over the trials. He sends the storm on Jonah, and prepares the fish to save him. The Lord sends the flood and makes sure the boat is finished first. He sends the locusts, and He restores the years they have eaten. He sends the tribulation, but He delivers His children out of all their troubles.

The trouble sets up the miracle. And the deliverance can be its own trial, like all that time stuck on the ark.

When we are in the trial, we see the blessing. We give thanks in all our circumstances and rejoice, always. God is being good. He’s ordained this for His glorious purposes and is working it for your good. We can see the trial as a blessing. It’s from the Lord. His intentions are always good, His motivation only love.

And when we are in the blessing, we have to always keep an eye on the trial. Joseph was in a position of power, wealth, and married into an idol worshiping family. Any one of those corrupts people. He had to live in all three. God had used the trial to prepare him to live in the blessing. That long trial was a blessing. If he had gone right to this position, I do believe it would have corrupted him. I don’t think he could have held onto integrity. But God used the trial to prepare him to receive the blessing and to be able to live in it without it harming him.

We give thanks for the blessing too, but keep an eye on the trial, keep an eye on what wants to get you. Keep it in your sights. You need God’s sustaining grace in the blessing just as much as in the trial.

In the trial we look to the blessing, which keeps us looking to our Savior. In the blessing, we look at the trial, which keeps us looking to our Savior.