Where Is the Glory?

August 30, 2016

I Samuel 4:1-22

I.   The Glory In a Box? (verses 1-10)

II.   The Weight of God's Judgment (verses 11-18)

III.  The God Who Departs and Draws Near (verses 19-22)

“The promise of glory is the promise, almost incredible and only possible by the work of Christ, that some of us, that any of us who really chooses, shall actually survive that examination [of standing before God], shall find approval, shall please God. To please God . . . to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness . . . to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son — it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.”    C.S. Lewis in The Weight of Glory