Glowing Glory
“Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.” Isaiah 60:1 NKJV http://bible.com/114/isa.60.1.nkjv Without a clear conception of the divine instructions in Isaiah 60:1, a blind manifestation of the promises of God’s glory in Isaiah 60:2-18 will be a complete misconception. Obviously, the combination of human relocation and declaration begat divine allocation. “Arise, shine” appears to embrace the combination of two distinctive instructions with a mutually inclusive compliance. Unfortunately, there are two unfavourable possibilities for non-compliance: ‘Not Arise, Not shine’ and ‘Arise, not shine’. The former (‘Not Arise, Not shine’) possibility simply ignore the necessity of faith in God before the manifestation of His promises; while the latter possibility (‘Arise, not shine’.) practices a walk-through but workless faith. However, God demands a ‘Arise, shine’ faith in His promises for all-round but glowing glory, depending on the righ...