The Vision of Glory
The Vision of Glory
(The effects of Seeing the Glory of God)
David Wilkerson
The Glory of God is given to those who seek it with all of their hearts.
You can pray the prayer of Moses.
“Lord, show me Your glory.”
(Exodus 33:18)
The glory of God was not and is not some physical manifestation of any kind.
The glory of God is a revelation of the nature and the attributes of God Himself.
It’s a revelation of His nature as defined by God Himself.
In fact God answered the prayer of Moses.
He took him up to the cliff of the rock,
He hid him in the cliff of the rock,
put His hand over his eyes until He passed
so that He take His hand off only towards backside.
But it was simply a revelation.
But the Bible said, “God cause His goodness to pass before him, and then He proclaimed His glory to Moses.”
And here is the explanation.
Here is God’s definition of what He is and who He is.
The LORD, The LORD God,
merciful and gracious, longsuffering,
and abundant in goodness and truth,
Keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, …
(Exodus 34:6-7)
What was the purpose of God showing His glory to Moses?
Certainly not to give him some aesthetic moment.
That’s not it.
God never reveals anything of His goodness, His grace, His power, His mercy without a purpose.
There is a purpose in this revelation.
The purpose of God revealing His glory to us in this day and age is that the glory might change us into His very image.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, (He said, “I want you to know Me in My glory.”) may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Ephesians 1:17
God said, “I want you to understand it.”
Moses understood it.
“I want you to understand it.
I want to open your eyes by My spirit.
I want you to see who I am to you.
I am not just God of wrath and judgement.
You’ve got to know My nature.
There is wrath in Me.
There is anger in Me.
But My nature is love.”
God is love.
That’s what He is.
“This is what I am.”, He said.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance (in other words, how this rich glory is going to be a part of you and in you.)
And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe
(Ephesians 1:18-19)
that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Ephesians 3:17
He said, “I want this revelation to be so real to you. I want you to see it.
Because that’s how you’re gonna become rooted and grounded in love.”
May be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth,
and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge,
that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Ephesians 3:18-19
The fullness of God is His glory.
That you may be filled with this revelation and being filled with this revelation.
It is the power that changes you.
God shows us Jesus Christ is His full expression of who He is.
In other words, Jesus came as the glory of God loving, merciful, tender-hearted, gracious, long-suffering even to the sinner,
the ranker’s sinner on earth.
God loves him and He’s merciful.
And He said, “Once you get that vision, it roots you, it grounds you, and it will fill you with the vision of Christ. And as you keep looking at the Word, and seeing it, and studying it, and claiming it, and propagating in your life you’re gonna be changed, changed, changed, keep changing from glory to glory means from revelation to revelation to revelation of this one truth.”
The Bible says, “We are changed from glory to glory.”
That means you’re affected by this vision.
The first and foremost effect of the revelation of the glory of God that is in Christ Jesus (is) that it changes your relationship with the Lord.
Jesus, open my mind and my spirit
to see and understand that You are love that You love me.
I receive that love and I worship You for it.