To God Be the Glory

Encore!

Why are we biblical Christians? Yes, we use the Bible. But why? Because it is the book that God has given. And why is that important? It is to the Bible we go, where we learn about God. And why be concerned about God? Because God is at the center of all that God is about. And to see God at the center, God for His own glory…God for His own honor…God for His own name… God for His own purposes… God asking the questions, God answering the questions… God in the midst… not to the side… God in fore-thought, not an after-thought… this is to confess what the God of the Bible confesses: for Yours is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory Forever and Ever and Ever………. And we can yet ask again, why be God-centered about God? Because God is centered on God.

It is like a symphony hall…. The Father is the conductor…. The entire orchestra is the Son of God; and the audience who bears witness is the Holy Spirit. He, our God, enjoys the hall… for it’s His hall… it’s His score of the music, His conducting of the score, His playing of every note—each section perfect in pitch, time, with skill and peformance; He is the display, the witness, the response, the eyes that are fixed in wonderment and awe, the One who moves to the edge of the seat to turn His ear to melodic and pastoral textures, and then stands to cheer, “bravo, bravo!” This is the symphony hall called Trinity Hall… the marquee board reads, “For from Him and to Him and through Him are all things. To Him be the glory for ever and ever.”

G.Mark Sumpter