Our Lord Jesus is the incarnation of the Glory of God. At the cross, He manifest His glory by dying as God's Lamb unto the saving of His people.
God's Word promises that when we see Jesus we shall be made like Him because we will see Him as He is. Seeing the Glory of Jesus transforms the believer, not only in Glory, but even now.
Indeed, the first look at Christ's glory as the Savior changes us from dead to alive in Him!
Further, the scriptures are full of exhortations to look to Christ as the example of Godly living.
But Paul's writings contain a certain promise that if we behold the Glory of the Lord even now, we will be changed into His image.
He contrasts the Glory of Christ with the glory of the law and Mt Sinai. That was a terrible glory, because the Law brings wrath and condemnation.
If the Law was glorious, much more the Gospel is glorious. The Law brings judgment, but the Gospel brings Righteousness in Christ!
The Law's glory faded away. Moses took on that radiance for a time, and the people feared to look upon him.
But the glory that is of Christ does not fade away. Instead, it grows more and more the longer we look into it.
Instead of averting our gaze as the Jews did, we are ordered to gaze upon Christ's glory, to drink it in, stare directly into its blaze, and so be changed into that Glory more and more as we look upon it.
Here is the challenge of sanctification: behold the Glory of the Lamb!
Beware anything made by men that displaces Christ's Glory. Cathedrals, vestments, grand organ music, the grandeur of organized religion - none of those are the Glory of Christ!
We see His Glory by His Word and at the Lord's Table!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...