Concealed Glory

• O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, who
have displayed Your splendor above the heav- ens!...When I consider
Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which
You have ordained; what is man that You take thought of him, and the
son of man that You care for him? Yet
, and You crown him with glory and majesty! You
make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all
things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the
field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever
passes through the paths of the seas (Psalm 8:1;3-8 NAS).
• David considered the heavens he was impressed not with the
smallness of man but with the greatness of God

• David describes that splendor as the “work of [God’s] fingers.” Glory is

tangible and observable. David’s question, “What is man...?” indicates
that he recognized humani- ty’s apparent smallness against the
backdrop of creation.
• He understood man’s true place in God’s order: “Yet You have made
him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and
majesty!”

• God created man in His own image. He imparted to us some of His

nature, His character, and His attributes. He created us to be like Him.
• He “crowned” us with “glory and majesty.”
• By creation and design we are carriers of God’s glory
“I Will Not Give My Glory to Another”
• humility?
• True humility means to recognize our roots.
• Recognizing and acknowledging who we really are: spiritual, godly
beings in an earthly body.
• To deny our gifts and our glory is an insult to God.
• This is what God the Lord says—He who created the heav- ens and
stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes out
of it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:
“I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your
hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the
people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free
captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit
in darkness. I am the Lord; that is My name!
See, the former things have taken
place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I
announce them to you” (Isaiah 42:5-9).
• Humility is very important, and we should never take credit for
something that God did, but acknowledging our God-given gifts and
exercising them without shame or apology is not stealing God’s glory.
On the contrary, it is a way of giving Him glory. Dr. Myles Munroe
God wants us to share and display His glory.
• Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or
imagine, according to to Him be
glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for
ever and ever! Amen (Ephesians 3:20-21).
• For God, who said, made His light
shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Christ.
We
are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in
despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not
destroyed.
(2 Corinthians
4:6-10).
Conclusion
• God hid His “treasure” inside our “jars of clay,” but He doesn’t want it
to stay there.
• His desire is for us to give full expression to the glory that resides
within us.
• We should live so close to the Lord that when people look at us they
will see Him shining out of our lives.