God\u2019s \u201cglory\u201d is how we describe the sum effect of all of his attributes. Grace, truth, goodness, mercy, justice, knowledge, power, eternality\u2014all that he is. Therefore, the glory of God is intrinsic, that is, it is as essential to God as light is to the sun, as blue is to the sky, as wet is to water. You don\u2019t make the sun light; it is light. You don\u2019t make the sky blue; it is blue. You don\u2019t make water wet; it is wet. In all of these cases, the attribute is intrinsic to the object.<\/p>\n
In contrast, man\u2019s glory is granted<\/i> to him. If you take a king and take off all his robes and crowns and give him only a rag to wear and leave him on the streets for a few weeks, when put next to a beggar you\u2019ll never know which is which. Because there is no intrinsic glory. The only glory a king has is when you give him a crown and a robe and sit him on his throne. He has no intrinsic glory.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the point. The only glory that men have is granted to them. The glory that is God\u2019s is his in his essence. You can\u2019t de-glory God because glory is his nature. You can\u2019t touch his glory. It cannot be taken away. It cannot be added to. It\u2019s his being.573<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost everything said of God is unworthy, for the very reason that it is capable of being said\u201d (Pope Gregory the Great, Magna moralia<\/i>).574<\/p>\n
In 1715, Louis XIV of France died. Louis, who called himself \u201cthe Great,\u201d was the monarch who made the infamous statement \u201cI am the State!\u201d His court was the most magnificent in Europe, and his funeral was spectacular. His body lay in a golden coffin. To dramatize the deceased king\u2019s greatness, orders had been given that the cathedral should be very dimly lighted, with only one special candle set above his coffin. Thousands waited in hushed silence. Then Bishop Massilon began to speak. Slowly reaching down, he snuffed out the candle, saying, \u201cOnly God is great!\u201d575<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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