September 4, 2010

1 Corinthians 14:20-40
Part of the glory of Christ is that He chooses to speak to people not only through His revealed Word but also through His body, the church. Why would He do such a thing? Wouldn’t it be much clearer if He sent angels or wrote the message in the stars or just dropped Bibles down from heaven to each language group written in that group’s language? It is such a messy thing, trying to get people with prideful-sin-marred natures to work together on something does not exalt them. I mean, really, give them each a gift that they can use to build toward the common goal? You know that prideful nature is going to cause them to exalt their gift over someone else’s gift. You know they are going to think their way of doing something is the only legitimate way of doing something. You know they are going to exalt the really gifted ones over the ones whose gifts are not so dramatic. You know their pride is going to get in the way.
Perhaps that is part of the Lord’s reasoning. I takes more power to do that which is more difficult. So when the one who is accomplishing that which is more difficult finishes, it brings Him greater glory. That is the glory of our Lord. His glory is not only found in His character, which is matchless, but it is also found in what He does. He performs some of the most impossible tasks. One of those is taking sin riddled people, cleaning their sin, gifting them, empowering them and using them to build His own body, His bride. Indeed we serve a glorious King! Speak His glory to someone today