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do you do It could be that the Northern Lights were putting on a fantastic display right outside your window and you wouldn't know it if your eyes were closed.

But if you looked outside, you would likely want to share what you are experiencing with everyone

in the household.

Well today on Truth for Life,

Alistair Beg explains why it's similar with God's glory.

When we see it, we want to share it with others.

Alistair is concluding our study in the book of Jude.

It is our knowledge of him that then shapes our praise, which is our second word.

Doxology. Doxa is Greek for glory. hence doxology.

And hymn writers have often been able to encapsulate

for us large areas of truth, not least of all about God and his glory

and power and so on, and done so often in a way that allows children to learn it in their smallness.

It's no surprise to any of you that hymns have underpinned so much of my understanding of God since I was small. And Horatious Bonner, the lesser-known

brother of Andrew, before he was ordained into the Free Church of Scotland, which was a Sam's only church,

they only sang metrical Psalms. Before he was ordained into that he taught Sunday school and when he taught Sunday school he wrote hymns because he decided that some of the tunes might be better and the words might be clearer.

He wrote some 600 hymns, one of which really challenges the way many of us come to the opportunity of praise. How do we come?

Well, thinking about ourselves, perhaps preoccupied with ourselves wondering just what this is going to mean to me.

The question is the entirely wrong question. The question is what will this matter to God? Will it be a

declaration of His glory, His majesty, His Dominion, His authority? And the hymn

begins, not what I am, old Lord, but what thou art.

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