“Show Me Your Glory” by Steve Lawson
By winning his seventh Super Bowl ring and fifth Most Valuable Player in that game a few weeks ago Tom Brady put to rest any discussion about who might be the GOAT (Greatest of All Time) in pro football. Yet within a short time (it may have already resumed) people will argue that their favorite player desires that moniker instead of Brady. [I will not mention a certain Tar Heel from Wilmington who a few people think is the GOAT of basketball.]
The true GOAT must be the “triune God, who eternally exists in three persons, (who) cannot be compared with any man-fabricated God” or sports stars. In Exodus 8:10, Moses stated to Pharaoh, “There is no one like the LORD our God.” This took place before the ten plagues occurred. After Israel passed through the Red Sea and Pharaoh’s army drowned, “Moses led the celebration of the God who delivered them: ‘Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praise, working wonders?’ (Ex. 15:11) The only answer to these rhetorical questions is, unquestionably, there is no one like God.”
In Moses last words to Israel as they prepared to go into the Promised Land, he encouraged them to focus on the incomparable God, “There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your help, and through the skies I His majesty.” (Dt. 33:26) Steve comments, “The emphasis is strongly placed on the uniqueness of God. There is absolutely none with whom to compare Him.” Others in the Old Testament, like Hannah in 1 Samuel 2:2 and David in 2 Samuel 7:22, give praise to God because “No deity, no angelic being, or no person can compare with the unequaled greatness of God.”
Therefore, “God demands our exclusive loyalty to Him. He alone is God, and He alone must be our sole trust and confidence. God and God alone must be our hope in this life and the life to come…May we say with the apostle Paul, ‘One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus’ (Phil. 3:13-14). May this be out one goal – the pursuit of knowing this triune God through Jesus Christ. May all else be secondary – may He be primary.” God is the GOAT!