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Writer's pictureSista Mercie

Ichabod!


She named the child Ichabod (which means "Where is the glory?"), for she said, "Israel's glory is gone." She named him this because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father-in-law and husband were dead. 1 Samuel 4:21 (New Living Translation)

Jacob slept at Bethel

And wist not that the presence of the Lord was there.

Israel carried the Ark of the Lord's Covenant to war

And wist not that the glory had already departed from them.


For the glory did not depart along with the ark

The glory left long before.

When they insisted on wickedness

When the priests dishonored the holy fireplace

When wives turned away from husbands and husbands despised their wives

When children would not yield to their parent's voices

When God became just 'the man up there' whose concerns were totally unsolicited...

The glory already departed...

And like Samson, they knew it not.


Therefore the ark was captured.


Child of God,

God does not dwell in temples built with human hands

He dwells within us

If we would but harbour His blinding glory

If we would but dare to stand in His holy presence, through Christ.

His glory through us our world would see

Like Dagon experienced while the Ark tarried with it.

That is the glory; the real glory that shines in a dark world.

Where is the glory?


-Sista Mercie


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