You make everything Glorious, what does that make me?

I created this picture in procreate a few weeks ago.  (it was from a tutorial, to learn the program).  When I was done, I looked at the tree and its reflection, and I had a thought.

We are made to reflect the Glory of God.

Then for the next week, God kept on waking me up early in the morning singing, Everything Glorious by David Crowder Band.  God just would not let me forget about it.

So I went to go look for the song and found the bible verse the band used to create the song.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 

And we who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

The word that stood out the most for me was:  Unveiled.  So I looked up the word unveil.

It means:  to remove a veil or covering.  Or this one stood out the most:  to throw off a protective cloak.

After reading that God reminded me of a time, I had to trust him fully by taking off my “protective cloak”, so that He could heal me.

It was in 2005 at a bible study, Bondage Breaker at Debbie’s house.  We were in our small group time, praying.  When God said to me, It is time.  I did not want to take off the veil to show everybody my brokenness, so I pleaded with God if we could please deal with this when we were alone.  But God told the small group leader, that she sees this ring of fire, and that there is someone in the group that needs to trust God and go through that fire with Him, so that healing could take place.

I decided that I would put my trust in God, I took off my veil and focused on God, and yes, I was a mess, with ugly sobbing crying and I thought I was going to be sick.  I felt sick to my stomach as I had to go through all that hurt and pain again.

But because I looked at God with an unveiled face, and took off the protective cloak around my heart, and allowed God in.  Healing could take place, so that I can reflect God’s Glory. 

It did not end there.  Healing still had to happen after that, I now had a raw wound that needed care.  I had to allow God daily, to care for that wound until it was fully healed.

The next thing in the verse that stood out to me was; ever increasing glory.  The more time I spend with the God, the brighter God’s glory will shine through me.

The more I allow God to heal me, and speak to me, I can be free to become who He created me to be.  We are all fearfully and wonderfully made.  We are made to be a vessel to reflect His glory.

If you knew me when I was younger, you would’ve known me as a timid, scared and very shy person.  Today, I am more confident than I used to be.  But this person I am today, is not because of me, it is because I put my trust in God, and decided to be vulnerable in front of Him. 

In our brokenness, we have the hope of God’s glory to lift us above our brokenness.  So that we can be a vessel God can use for His glory.