What is the glory?

    What is the glory of God?  I suppose that might be a question that draws a lot of different opinions.  An awful lot of people throw out those words, as if they know what they mean, but I am not so sure.   I know the word means an "outshining" of something, or the "best of something made visible, or shined outward".  I know we have all sinned and come short of the "glory" and in my Bible study I have come to know this refers to the original glory, such as might have been seen prior to the fall.  I know we are being led from "glory to glory", by the Spirit of God.  I know the Bible attributes the resurrection of Jesus to the "glory" and to the "Spirit", indicating they are one and the same.   I know that in His call for us to be "one" as He and the Father were, He said He would give us His "glory", that by the glory we might be made one. That too, refers to the Holy Ghost.   All that said, I don't know that I can understand or completely define the glory of God.

    Here is what I do know that thrills me.  Remember when Moses was interceding with God, first of all about not destroying the people and then about going on to the promised land? He accomplish the first, obtaining God's mercy by intercession. Then he negotiated with God, gaining permission to still go to the promised land, and then later, to go with angels accompanying. God gave in to all that, but refused to go with Moses.  Moses kept at it until God relented and promised His presence would go with Moses.  That was still not enough for this man of God.  He refused God's offer to go, even with the promise of God's presence.  He went one more step and asked God to "show me your glory".  God answered that request as well and He answered by setting Moses in a cleft of a rock, putting His hand over Him and then He passed His "goodness" before Moses, declaring, as He did, His name and His sovereignty.   The cry of my heart?  Show us you glory Lord!  Show us your Glory!  Pour out your goodness for all to see!  In these last days, I am not looking for the wrath of God...I am looking for the glory!