In our sometimes glib declarations concerning the glory of God, we tend to neglect the might and power aspect of glory for the glowing radiance or gorgeous sunset aspects. There is liitle sense of the weightiness, the preponderance, the imposing presence originally implied in the word 'glory'. Glory can be quickly reduced to something observable in detachment and completely non-threatening. An exercise in feeling-good aesthetic contemplation.
Perhaps we resort to this habit of distancing because we have trouble holding together God as a consuming fire and God as a compassionate father.
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