Glory

“Christ Jesus... made Himself of no reputation."38 What an immense contrast between that unspeakable bliss that the Lord Jesus enjoyed in the glory of the Father's house in the past eternity and the lowest depths to which He went in taking a body for the suffering of death! He became a man that He might reveal the Father's heart to us. He was not here to make a name for Himself (as we speak), nor did He desire to draw the crowds after Himself as we might through a fleshly desire for prominence and prestige. The moral excellence of His person could not be hid, and those whose hearts God had touched were drawn to Him. But He was here as the "meek and lowly"39 One. "When we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him."40 He emptied Himself of all His outward glory; He then humbled Himself and was "obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."41
To Him who stooped so low, our souls overflow with praise and worship, as we ascribe to Him the highest honors: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive... glory." He glorified the Father in that work which He finished on the cross;42 He was then raised from among the dead by the glory of the Father.43 God has "highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow... every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."44 "When He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high."45 "We see Jesus... crowned with glory and honor."46
Of the vast universe of bliss,
The center Thou, and Sun;
The eternal theme of praise is this,
To heaven's beloved One:
Worthy, O Lamb of God, art Thou,
That every knee to Thee should bow. 47