Glorify*

* In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. Mt 5:16 NIVUK http://bible.com/113/mat.5.16.NIVUK

* ...on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marvelled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you. With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2Thes 1:10‭-‬12 NIVUK  http://bible.com/113/2th.1.10-12.NIVUK


Well what's it MEAN to "glorify*" some-one?
It seems to mean, to make them seem quite good,
to make them shine for others like the sun
(which would be false, unless they really could).

There's something in our nature seems to do this,
we want to praise, & help more good be seen,
appreciate the good that comes through, which
we seem to want to magnify - it's sheen,

it's lustre, qualit-y, & aesthetics
(with ethics coming longway back behind)
are things that we perceive (anaesthetics
hain't yet knocked out) we look, and are not blind.

It's what God did when God looked and God "saw
that it was good" - when God made up this world,
the next step is that we want to do more
& speak about it, get that flag unfurled.

It's kind of like to shine the light on it,
to keep the spotlight trained upon the one
that should be seen quite well, at least this bit
of story that's seen now "under the sun".

Or maybe acting like a waterdrop,
"backwards rainbow" for it takes "colours"
of God's good gifts from "all over the shop",
combines them, to trace their source for others.

And yet we know the problems that can come
whenever we then 'glorify' too much
a movie, or a fight for good, or some-
thing that is not the source of "Good", as such.


* After Jesus said this, he looked towards heaven and prayed: ‘Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. Jn 17:1‭-‬5 NIVUK  http://bible.com/113/jhn.17.1-5.NIVUK