Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale Daily DevotionalSample

El-kabod We're going to start our study of God's next name in a rather unlikely way-by looking at someone's hair. What in the world does a person's hair have to do with God's name? It's in the second book of Samuel that we learn Absalom, King David's third son, had some incredible hair. At the end of each year, he would get a haircut, and the clippings would add up to about five pounds. Now imagine that for a moment. Five pounds worth of hair-in just one year! No wonder the scriptures say his hair was "heavy upon him" (2 Samuel 14:26). A lot of people would give anything to have a head of hair like that! Here's the tie-in. The Hebrew word that's used to describe the heaviness of Absalom's hair is directly connected to the word scripture uses for "glory" when it addresses God as the "God of glory." It's the word kabod, and it essentially means "heaviness and weightiness." So when David joins the words El and kabod in Psalm Chapter 29, he's painting a picture of God as having an undeniable heaviness, weight, gravity, and substance to Him. Again, think back to Absalom's hair. Think of how thick and flowing it must have been, how it must have stood out in a crowd, how it must have inspired onlookers to stop and say, "Wow! That's some heavy hair!" That's the essence of God being El-kabod, the God of glory. His sheer presence is so substantive and carries so much weight that all we can do is stand back and exclaim, "Wow! That's heavy!" Think about it... What does this passage reveal to me about God? What does this passage reveal to me about myself? Based on this, what changes do I need to make? What is my prayer for today? What in the world does a person's hair have to do with God's name? Think about it... What does this passage reveal to me about God? What does this passage reveal to me about myself? Based on this, what changes do I need to make? What is my prayer for today?