A definition of glory -- and a question

Glory is God's nature and presence coming through His creation unimpeded.

By creation I mean all that He has created, the heavens above, this world, the seen and the unseen; but primarily I mean the materials of this creation: physical nature; human nature.

God's glory "requires" the materiality of creation to make it known. By require I do not mean that God needs anything. I simply mean that, had God not created us and all that we are, in context of this creation and all that it is, we wound not be here to wonder what His glory is.

And so glory relates to the fundamental question of questions: Why is there everything, instead of nothing at all?

There is everything because the glory of God has called it all into being.

It appears that nature itself, for all of its current troubles, knows this.

The question is, do we?

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Matthew 5.16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 6.28-29 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?