Those 6 words are profound. Let's sit with them for awhile. Think of your life, the way you were raised, trained up and how you perceive life and meaning.
We make decisions each and every day to bring levels of splendor into our lives. Be it the quest for the 'Western Dream' of prosperity, a life of ease, indulgence, fascinations with the best things in life, we are always seeking after something of majesty, something of brilliance. We can also seek after the splendor of things that ease our burden or pain. Addictions to drugs, alcohol, gambling, gossip/idle talk, sex, money/greed (this list is not exhaustive) and if we are honest, these things are on display in our lives which point to a deep heart issue that we all face. How do I escape or how do I build my own kingdom? We have a deep fear of missing out. (FOMO is real)
What if we stopped and did a re-set? What would it mean to slow down and stop rushing from one thing to another and took time to be present with what our hands are doing, or where our feet are taking us? What if we resisted building our own display of our kingdom come?
What if we re-connected with who made us? A creator God who didn't just cause cells to divide by accident or evolution, but purposefully created us to seek after His Splendor. To desire for his splendor to be on display, rather than ours. When I think of that action, I get a deep sense of rest, and the ability to take deep breathes and to come back to realize that all the good/work I seek to do can be ordered in a way that takes away people's vision of me, and put it on Jesus who sought to save me from my own doing.
"...for the display of His Splendor!"
Rest, sabbath rest, intentionally stopping and focusing on the real purposes of life, happiness and goodness in the land of the living with an eternal perspective of human flourishing. Can we attain this? Rejecting the lies of the culture around us that tries to dictate to us how we shall live, rather than drinking and eating from the source of the divine, God with us, Emmanuel?
This is my prayer as I move throughout 2025. To resist rushing, to resist my kingdom and to seek first the one who gives me breath. Care to join?
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