God seems to be having some PR problems these days. For example, someone sent me a clip of Oprah discussing her religious views. When she was in her late twenties the baptist preacher at the church she attended spoke about characteristics of God: his omniscience, his omnipresence, and his jealousy. God's jealousy didn't sit well with her and she began to search for an experience of God that was outside the box in which the Christian Bible had placed him. She found a much bigger God, one who could be experienced in any number of different religions using any number of different methods.
I can't help but think Oprah might have a stroke if she read Isaiah and discovered that God said he wouldn't share his glory with anyone or anything else. Even worse, were she to read John Piper, who boldly claims that God is most interested in his own glory, she might well not recover. That just makes God sound so ill-mannered and spoiled. But if God is truly perfect, then he alone is worthy of all glory and has every right to be jealous, whether it sits well with our modern sensibilities or not.
Oprah's PR capabilities stagger the mind. But rest assured, God has been through other PR problems in the past and he seems to outlast them all:o) God will receive the glory he deserves.
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