Knowing God – October 10, 2024 Issue
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By Rev Dale Lee
Rev Dale Lee
“I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty and on Your wondrous works.” (Psalm 145:5, NKJV)
David, his egregious sins and all, got it right along the way. He came to the firm belief and practice that meditating upon God’s greatness was more important than laboring for his own. How few ever find this out? Or find it out after most of life is gone? Nothing in the universe will fascinate and expand our minds like meditating upon the glorious splendor of God’s majesty. We can do this to our eternal benefit or spend more time fiddling around on our iPhones.
To use a metaphor from Shakespeare: man would like his glory to be like a circle of water that never ceases to enlarge itself. So far so good, that is, until the circle is so broad it disappears, as all man’s glory will inevitably do. Ask Don Quixote.
Don Quixote is the fictitious character who never stopped dreaming of ways to be great and achieving glory. Author Miguel Cervantes writes about ol’ Don: Our gentleman became so immersed in his reading that he spent whole nights from sundown to sunup and his days from dawn to dusk in pouring over his books, until, finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. He had filled his imagination with everything he had read, with enchantments, knightly encounters, battles, challenges, wounds, with tales of love and its torments, and all sorts of impossible things, and as a result had come to believe that all these fictitious happenings were true; they were more real to him than anything else in the world.
Don went on to fight giant windmills in his never ending quest for glory. In the end the windmills achieved more glory than he did.
We can spend our few years in the pursuit of windmills, pleasures, glories or whatever we find next to amuse us. Or we can set our hearts to do what David did: meditate upon the glorious splendor of God’s majesty. Then we will humble ourselves before the Infinitely Great Lord and praise His greatness. Isn’t this why we are here?