king of glory

Who is the Lord? The King of Glory. [psalm 24]. Let him in the psalmist cries. Let this king of glory in. What happens when he comes into us? Were changed. I have been around many people lately who have been trying to tell me that we created god. That he is a social construct, that the there are hundreds of religions and that we all have our own version with similar qualities and that truth is relative not absolute.

What do I have to say to that? I don’t have a precise statement that will affirm the reality of Christ or the truth of Gods Word. I will not pretend to know a logical argument that proves Christianity or ignore the track record Christians have had since the time Christ lived. I will not deny the racism, hatred, and darkness that have been present in this Church, this bride of Christ, but I will say that God does not deny it either. He acknowledges our failure to represent him to the world and does not desert us.

I can only say that I do love him. I do think that he is very much real, very much alive, very much light and love. I do believe that there is a king of glory and that the earth does belong to him and that I was made to belong to him. I know that I have nothing unique to say about the validity of Christianity, people far more intelligent than I am have affirmed and denounced it. I believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and Love as absolutely, eternally, undeniably true with everything in me and I believe that he can save me and that I cannot save myself. My own intellect and reasoning is not where my hope lies. My rationality and philosophy, my self, is not what I trust in. Nor is society or culture.

I look at these psalms before me and I love them and I trust them. I do love this Word. One thing I have asked of the Lord, psalm 27 says, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord forever, gaze upon the beauty of the lord.

I seek your face God…take me in. Make me bend low. Make me serve more. Make my love more like your love so that the world may know that I am yours. It is only by our love that they will know whom we belong to. Whose face we seek. Whose face they see when they look at us. Take me in O Lord, as I lift my face and my hands to you, teach me your ways. Hem me in from behind and before. Come in, O king of glory.

Christ Jesus has become to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption so that it is written let the one who boasts boast in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 1:30)