Deep inside every person, there is a longing to know the deep things of God, specifically His eternal glory (read Created For The Glory Of God And His Wonder). Why? Because only that which is eternal can satisfy the eternal, and eternity is in our hearts.

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end” (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

How we go about satisfying this thirst and hunger is another story. We might do all kind of things to gratify this longing. Though the counterfeit might register something similar to what our soul might liken to the glory of God, we are often left longing because it can’t be substituted with a fake. How do you satisfy your eternal hunger for God’s glory?

I’ve noticed many times that my desire to know God in His glory escalates as I fellowship with other believers. There is something about fellowship with one another. This is not to say you can’t experience Him alone. When others share how Jesus reveals Himself to them, you can’t help but to be provoked to know Him even more. This is because He always shows up when we fellowship with one another.

“For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them” (Matthew 18:20)

When others share their experience of the glory of God, it affirms that you can know Him even more…to a greater measure than you know Him. Sometimes when I struggle to get in front of Him to get from Him what I can’t get anywhere else, I just need a glance of Him and His glorious nature.

When He unveils a side of Him that I’ve not known, my hearts begins to jump with excitement to know Him even more. That glance of Him fuels my desire to know Him because at that moment, I know there is nothing else that can measure up to that. Everything else becomes insignificant compared to the manifested glory of God. And that revelation of His glory propels me to pursue this knowledge of eternity that my heart was made for.

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