Inexhaustible Glory

Revelation 4:6-11
And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

The Apostle Peter’s final exhortation to the church in his second epistle was that they would grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord. Paul the apostle prayed similarly for the Ephesians that they would have strength to comprehend what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge. The truth is, an eternity will not be long enough to plumb the depths of the beauty, wonder and greatness of God. Oh the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements and His ways past finding out. For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been His counselor? Or who has given to Him that he might be repaid? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever!

In the passage above we read of John’s vision of the Throne in Heaven. He sees living creatures full of eyes all around and within. Think of that, eyes all around and within! What are eyes for? What function do they serve. With eyes we can perceive. With eyes we have the capacity to see, to take in, to gain knowledge of something. Think about all we can perceive with our eyes. We only have two of them. The living creatures around the throne are full of eyes around and within. Imagine the great intelligence of these creatures; the massive capacity they have to search out what they are looking at. With eyes all around and within looking at something you would think it wouldn’t be long before there would be nothing more to see here. The wonder, the beauty, the amazement would wear off fairly quickly. But these creatures, day and night, never cease to say, “Holy holy holy, is the Lord God almighty who was and is and is to come. How deep and unending can God’s presence and glory be that creatures with capacity far beyond anything we could ever hope to come close to are captivated day and night, filled with wonder and awe at the greatness of God. We would melt in that degree of glory. Moses asked to see His glory and He said no man can see My face and live. But there is a place where we can receive the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. That place is in the face of Jesus Christ. When the eyes of our faith are upon Christ we can see the glory of God. He said to Moses I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my Name “the Lord”. I will put you in a cleft of the rock while my glory passes before you. That “ split rock" was a type of Christ.

My prayer for myself and you as fellow believers is……. that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might…..

-Amen