I am staggered by one concept about our God more than any other. The concept is His glory. As much as I would like to think that I understand it, I’m limited not only by my obvious sinful humanity, but I believe that God’s glory is so immense that to attempt to embrace it is like having a child wrap his arms around a giant Redwood. There are two teachings about the glory of God that I deeply appreciate. The first comes from Tozer. He points out that since God is infinite, so must his attributes be. Hence, God’s glory is not only one of His infinite attributes, it is infinite in its size and capacity. And, in a very limited way, God has only exposed us to the attributes about Himself that we have recorded in Scripture. Any more (attributes) would be more than we could probably comprehend. The second comes from Dan DeHaan. He says that the glory of God is the sum total of all the attributes of God. Imagine, all of the known attributes of God being demonstrated in one word, in one locale. That being said, we get occasional glimpses of the physical manifestation of God’s glory from time to time in Scripture. Moses saw the “backside” of God as He passed by. Full exposure to the glory of God would have killed him. Nonetheless, the context indicates that God was putting on display some of His attributes at that moment (Exodus 33, 34). The presence of the glory of God was seen in the Tabernacle: fire by night, cloud by day. The next record was the glory of God filling the Temple in Jerusalem. The next presence of God’s glory was in the life of the Son of God Himself. We are told that the Word became flesh, dwelt among us “…and we beheld His glory…full of grace and truth.” The depiction of God’s presence among us is highlighted by two attributes (mentioned as well in Exodus) emphasized in the life of Christ: grace and truth. And then there was the brief glimpse that a select handful of Jesus’ disciples witnessed of the glorified presence of God on the Mount of Transfiguration. Jesus appearance was white like lightning! But the most humbling demonstration of the grace of God is witnessed by NT Christians. Paul tells us that our body is the temple of God in whose abode the Holy Spirit Himself dwells. We get to house the glory of God in our bodies! The irony, at least as I see it, of all of this is that an infinite God who possesses infinite attributes is pleased to use physical/natural elements to house His glory from generation to generation: temple to temple. Now, wrap your child-like arms around that! How gracious our Heavenly Father is to allow us just a taste of His grace and truth to be demonstrated in the body and lives of us, His children.