The Glory Keeps You Going
Men seek glory. There's no doubt they will do almost anything to achieve it. They will write songs or plays to shock or inspire. They will fight in dangerous matches for sport against one another, or play a dangerous sport to win an award. They will even kill or destroy for their own name. Why? Because there's an inner desire for glory that cannot be quenched by self-glorification. The glory we were made for is the glory of God. Ezekiel's prophetic work had to be hard among the exiles of Israel. Here was a nation in disarray and confused by false prophets, memories of former national glory, and an endless tunnel of exile in which there seemed to be no light to mark its end. To minister God's Word in such circumstances would have been demanding and exhausting. For Ezekiel, the one thing that kept him going had to be the repeated experiences with the GLORY of God. The glory of God keeps God's men and women going. In the 8th chapter, we have another overpowering expe