Searching For Beauty

If you have the eye for it, beauty can be found almost anywhere. In the most unlikely places beauty has a seed there, I'll almost guarantee it.

However, when you're looking for majestic beauty, there are few better places to find it, in my opinion, than the mountains... any mountains really.

I love the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee because of their name. The Smokies... They're called this because of the fog that often sits on the peaks or plains. If you're lucky enough to be there when this is occuring (it's most likely in the rain) than you will have just a small idea of what the temple must have been like when it filled with the Glory of God.

There's a song, "Lord Let Your Glory Fall"

There's a verse:

"Lord let your glory fall, as on that ancient day. Songs of enduring love, and then Your glory came.

Your presence like a cloud, upon that ancient day. The priests where overwhelmed. Because Your glory came."

You know what I find interesting about fog? There are a few things.

1) You cannot see through it

2) It's thick and often you can feel it

3) You can find it anywhere. Whether high or low, you can find it.

4) It's beautiful and mysterious

If God's glory settles "like a cloud" (fog) then there could be a few things taken from this.

1) No matter where you're at in this season of your life, high or low... on the top of the mountain, or in the valley below. You are not out of reach of the Glory of God. It could come at any point and time in your life, rain or shine. You probably won't expect it, though you were probably asking for it.

2) You will feel the weight of glory. It will affect you.

3) Sometimes as a result of His glory resting upon you... your vision will not be clear. You won't be able to see and discern on your own.

We pray and we sing "Lord, let your glory fall."

Let's rid ourselves of singing things we don't understand or don't give any real thought to, and let's ponder this request.

We're asking for "blured vision, a thick weight, a wonderful powerful moment, and vision that only can see God."

YES, Lord let Your glory fall.