God's Glory

In a vision, the prophet Ezekiel is taken into the inner court of the Temple, and "behold! The glory of the Lord filled the space" (43:5). 

This is not the first time we have heard this. When the Lord's presence filled the Tabernacle in the wilderness of Sinai, it filled that place. When He came to dwell in His temple, His glory filled that place. He led the Israelites by cloud and by fire, and we are told that when He came to dwell, the cloud was so thick that nobody else could enter in. God's glory took up literally every square inch of His space and even had some overflow - it could be seen from outside His holy space, as well. 

Friends, I don't think we understand just how big God is. 

We look at the skies and think He must live up there somewhere. Maybe He lives in the whole up there somewhere. Or we look at the church and think maybe He lives on that corner. Or we look in our lives, and we know we have a space for Him. 

But God isn't content with a space. He's not content to be in a place with limits; the presence and glory of God has no limits. He fills every square inch of His holy space. 

And guess what? 

All of creation is His holy space. 

And that includes your heart. 

Do we understand this? Do we get that God is not just in the heavens? He's literally spilling over them. He's not just in the church; He radiates out of it. He is not just in us; He oozes out of us. His glory is the kind of glory that spreads out and takes up every bit of space and seeps out over the edges and declares itself. 

The Bible says it this way: The whole earth is full of His glory. 

And you know what happens? When we get above the earth, when we get out of our own orbit, when we see this sphere from the heavens, it takes our breath away. Because it is so glorious, we see Him seeping out of it. Oozing over the edges. Totally filling the space and then some. 

The question we have to ask ourselves, then, is if others can see this same thing in our lives. If we're living like the holy God and His glory take up all our space and ooze over the edges. The question we have to ask is if we can see the same thing in our lives. Do we get that we are literally overflowing with the glory of God? 

Are we living like it? 

If not, perhaps it's time for us to get a vision like Ezekiel, where we are whisked away into the inner courtyard of the temple of our hearts - for don't you know that you are a temple of the Lord? - and let our sanctified imaginations see what it is like to have the Lord fill that space. Fill it so full, to every corner and every crack and every crevice, that even from the outside looking in, it's unmistakable that the glory of the Lord is here.