"All Flesh Shall See Together"

"And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it.  For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
(Isaiah. 40:5, NIV)

You will notice the phrase, "all mankind together will see it."  But the word, "it," is not in the Hebrew text.  "The glory of the LORD" is not an "it."  "The glory of the LORD" is a Person.

A very good friend of ours lost her mother a few days ago.  Another friend lost her father a few weeks before.  Jacob called it, "the way of all the earth."  The day after Christmas 40 years ago, we noticed
that something was wrong with our oldest son, Stephen.  You know what happened.  By the following June, he had left this life------ and us.   

People often point out that the reason so many people are depressed during the Christmas Season is that some have fond memories of Christmas only in some distant past.  For others, they are only depressing memories.  This need not be for you and me!  You and I are People of King Jesus, "The Glory of the LORD," the Only One Who conquered sin, death, and the grave. 
               "Up from the grave He arose    
               With a mighty triumph or'e his      foes
               He arose a Victor from the dark Domain
               And he lives forever with His Saints to reign"

Have a "Merry Christmas!"  The Bible teaches us that our time here is just a "holding area," a "waiting room," if you will.  Skeptics and cynics, rail all you like.  This is not some "great escape" mentality.  This is the Great "Reality Show!"  Whatever the current blindness of humanity, the Day is coming, says the Lord, when, "the glory of the LORD will be revealed" in a way unimaginable.  "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.  And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.  And thus we shall always be with the Lord."

The "God-Breathed" Word tells us that, "....the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.  We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."  If you cannot "get into the Christmas spirit," forget that and get into Jesus Christ, Father's "glory" and "grace" and "truth."  This is not some empty exhortation.  It a promise universal.  "All mankind together will see...the glory of the One and Only...."

Father, in Jesus' Name, I rejoice today that "all mankind together will see"--------------------  whatever they may do with that.  Amen.
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Eighteen year old Norwegian, Peter Torjesen, "when he heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2