There Is Glory Upon Him

The Father put Glory upon the Lord Jesus Christ. And what a Glory it must be! Who can give full account of His Glory? Who can describe the Glory which He has now and will have manifested in the day of His power when He comes again as Lord of lords and King of kings?
But now reader, pause.
He was rich in eternity in these three things —
in Possessions, for all belonged to Him;
in Love; the Only begotten of the Father;
in Glory, the Glory of God.
These three—Possessions, Love and Glory—He had given up, laid aside. In that dark hour as He hung naked, alone, forsaken on the cross, He was stripped of all. But now in resurrection, we see Him, the risen Son of God back with the Father. All power is given Him and He is the heir of all things. The Father's Love is upon Him and that Glory enshrouds Him once more. He has again exactly the same riches that He had before the world was, but with this difference only, He is now the Man in the Glory.
Just as rich as He is, the glorified One, so also is the vilest sinner who has now believed on Him; who is washed in the precious blood of the Lamb.
His eternal Riches, are your Riches, child of God they are yours upon believing Him and they are yours forever.
Open eye and heart wide to receive fullest knowledge of the measure of the Love and Grace of God in Jesus Christ.
This One saw a world of ruined men and women who were rebels and enemies of God. He was not taken by surprise when mankind fell. He knew it all in that past eternity. He had made provision for the sin of His much loved creation. Here was that lovely One Who always dwelt in The Father's bosom, and by Whom and for Whom all things were called into existence. God purposed to have others with Him as sons with that One Only Son. These vile rebels and enemies are to be taken out of the power of darkness and placed alongside that Only Son, to share His inheritance, share the Father's Love, and His Glory for all eternity.
How could He accomplish all this?
He gave up His Son! He let Him depart into that dark world. He let Him go and even sent Him forth.
He then smote Him, as we have seen, upon the cross. He then raised Him up as victor over death and the grave, and took Him into His presence again, seating Him at His own right hand in the Heavenlies. And in Him God has accomplished His wonderful purpose to have sons in that Son, as sharers in His Riches.
Could any other have ever conceived such a plan?
Could all the wisdom of this world ever discover such a scheme? The Only begotten of the Father, The Rich One, Who created all things was made a little lower than the angels and now He is made so much better than the angels, obtaining by inheritance a more excellent Name than they. Heb. 1:4 And all this was done for us lost sinners that we might become sons with Him and share that place which He has in highest Glory.
As rich as He is in the Father's presence, so also are you, believers, for such is the wealth of every saved, believing child of God.
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs With Christ."Rom. 8:16, 17
Sonship and Heirship are inseparably connected. We are Heirs of God because as believers we are sons. Our inheritance is nothing less than the inheritance of Him Who is the First begotten from the dead. God appointed Him the heir of all things and we are joint heirs and fellow heirs of Christ. Can there be anything plainer than that?
God told Abraham to walk through the land He had promised to him and to his seed. We can readily imagine what joy the father of the faithful had as he walked through that goodly land with its green pastures, springs of water, rivers and lakes. How his eyes must have delighted to gaze upon the beautiful mountains. Yet he did not actually possess it all then, but in faith he truly enjoyed it all.
Our God and Father does not ask us to walk through a land here in this world. He tells us of much more than that. He has given all to the Son of His Love; the whole earth belongs to Him actually the whole universe; and because it belongs to Him it belongs to us. Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens above with its wonderful mysteries, its countless heavenly bodies, its unfathomable space, its solar systems beyond the reach of the most powerful telescope. It all belongs to Him. He holds it in His blessed hands and it belongs also to us. It is your inheritance. With Him we shall be in the possession and enjoyment of the heavens and the earth. What it all will be, and how great our riches are, who can fully tell? There never will be reached in all eternity a time when we shall come to the end of our riches in Him, with Whom we shall dwell for the eternal ages.
God the Father desires that you now enjoy
by faith your riches.
What are all the possessions we may strive to obtain and keep on this earth? We may call them "riches," but what are they in comparison with our riches as sons of God? These thing here are but "bubbles" and "baubles," simple miserable toys of time that before long must all be left behind.
Child of God, look beyond. In wealth or poverty, in abundance or in want, every day remember your eternal, your abiding riches in the Lord Jesus Christ. Rejoice in faith and triumph in it over all earthly conditions and circumstances as being Heirs of God.