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Isaiah 6:3 (NIV)
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”

Last week we looked at Ecclesiastes 3:11

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)

¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

We saw the tension between everything “beautiful in its time” and the haunting of “eternity in our hearts”.

In Isaiah 6:3 we have similar polls of comparison, the holiness, meaning the otherness and separation of God from everything else, and the idea that the whole creation is shot through, seemingly in-discriminant with his glory. God is both untouchable and has made his presence seen, felt, heard, tasted and smelled in every square inch of creation.

Glory

Christianity says that the meaning of life is glory. It is the reason God made the world. It is the reason God did not abandon humanity to its rebellion but instead began a long process of redemption and restoration that will culminate in the glory God built into this world being reclaimed as his own.

The polarity of Isaiah 6:3 is felt in the reality of otherness in glory.

Let’s begin with an apple pie. The domesticated apple originates in wild apples in Kazakhstan. Years of human cultivation and domestication go into creating what you consider the apple today to be. From there the cook takes apple, flour, eggs and other ingredients with heat to create the glory of an apple pie.

Glory has a funny relationship with personhood. When we create glory we recognize it is something outside of ourselves, yet something we have contributed to. We don’t own it, and any attempt to own it or fully possess it diminishes the glory.

Rebellion as Attempted Theft of Glory

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