As treeplanters we make jokes about coming out the bush to 'get fame, riches and glory!' None of which are ultimately found here. Some of us even have to got home to questions of whether treeplanting is volunteer work, and worse I get called an environmentalist! But somehow between the blood, sweat and tears epic quotes from wonderful overdoses of testosterone known as movies come up, stuff like Troy and Gladiator. "What we do in this life echos in eternity!" becomes "What we do today we stand for fifty years! Until they cut them down and start over." just lacks the punch the those epic movies have. Maybe that's why there's no expensive studio over about treeplanting. The glory is just fleeting.
Glory: Great honor, praise, or distinction accorded by common consent; renown.
This coupled with my reading of Dr. John Piper's "The Pleasures of God" has lead me to these thoughts. I'll attempt to summarize over a hundred pages of heavy theology briefly. God is happy. God takes joy in his Son, in Himself, in his great name and in his glory. God's glory is of infinite value. Amazing how belittle God's name and his work and abilities. And his still takes great joy in saving us, but since we have dishonored that which is the most precious and honorable to God (his glory), so to reconcile these two seemingly conflicted desires, he sent Jesus to the cross that the mockery of his glory might be paid for and he might save and redeem sinners. (that totally doesn't do justice to this idea and is probably way to much in one paragraph anyway) But God's glory is awesome. And all of our(my) silly ideas of getting glory really fall flat in light of God's supreme glory.
It struck me as I was sitting my Kinuseo Falls, just watching and listening to the awesome power of this waterfall that God created, God speaking the idea came to mind. "Yeah its nice but I was imagining better, sin's kind of put a damper on it, just wait until you see my full glory in after I redeem the Earth."
~CHAD
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