This is adapted from a post that was originally published on September 9, 2011
In case you need to be reminded (as I often do):
- We were created for God’s glory (Isa. 43:7).
- We were made in the image of God, to reflect his glory (Gen. 2:27).
- Everything we do should be for God’s glory (1 Cor. 10:31). But, we fall short of God’s glory (Rom. 3:23).
- Paul says that the human race has “exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles” (Rom. 1:23).
- Jesus came to earth to reveal God’s glory, “glory as of the only Son from the Father” (John 1:14).
- Jesus prayed that God’s people would be with him where he is to see his glory (John 17:24).
- God has provided a solution to our falling short of his glory. Through Jesus, he has saved us so that we would “be to the praise of his glory” (Eph. 1:12). Jesus has granted us the same glory he and the Father share that we might be one with them (John 17:22).
- In this salvation, God predestines his own people to be “conformed to the image of his Son” (Rom. 8:29) who is the “radiance of the glory of God” (Heb. 1:3).
- One day, God will redeem all of creation by setting “it free from its bondage to decay and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God” (Rom. 8:21).
- Forever and ever after, God will receive glory because of Christ’s redemption (Rev. 1:6).
The Bible (and life) is not about us. It’s about God and his glory.
JAMES PRUCH 