A Blessing for Greater Glory

I bless your soul

To be rapt with wonder

At the greater Glory

Of God’s New Covenant grace.

The ancient holy mount

Was wrapped

In a holy cloud

As the Lord of Glory

Descended in fire.

Sinai shook.

People trembled.

Moses spoke.

“God answered him in thunder:

‘Go down and warn the people,

Lest they break through to the Lord

To look

And many of them perish.’” (Ex. 19:21)

The Old Covenant arrived

In glory—

Mountain-shaking,

Eye-blinding,

Knee-knocking

Glory.

But the fire and light and wonder

Of the Old

Is Nothing

Compared to the New:

“If there was Glory

In the ministry of condemnation,

The ministry of righteousness,

Must far exceed it in glory.” (2 Cor. 3:9)

What you have,

New Covenant child of God,

Is far more glorious than

The arrival of stone tablets

That made Mt. Sinai quake—

You have received

“The Spirit of the Living God!” (2 Cor. 3:3)

Who, in you,

Can shake the world.