The Greatness of His Glory

And what about the Glory? How great the glory He has revealed. It belongs to us in Him and with Him. We but need to remind ourselves of another utterance in His prayer. How good of Him that He spoke all these words before He left the world. His disciples heard Him utter these words, and from them all may learn His love and the believer's glorious destiny.
And we, in reading the 17th chapter of John, can hear Him still praying. The word that tells us of Glory: "And the Glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them...""Father, I will that they also, whom Thou host given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My Glory, which Thou host given Me." John 17:22, 24
Is this not sufficient? We shall share His glory. We shall forever be with Him! Our bodies of humiliation will be fashioned like unto His glorious body. We shall see Him as He is and shall be like Him. Our glorious destiny is to be conformed to the image of God's Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. At last glorified with Him, God will show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness towards us through Christ Jesus.
What a Glory that will be forever with the Lord Who loved us and gave Himself for us.
And soon that Glory will be upon us. The Lord is at hand. The blessed moment for which He has waited upon the Father's throne to have us all with Him, and for which generation after generation have waited, is very nigh, even at the door. Soon we shall hear the voice of the Bridegroom calling His beloved Bride to come away, to come into His presence and then we shall fully and completely share His Riches.
And is it so! I shall be like Thy Son, Is this the grace which He for us has won? Father of glory! (thought beyond all thought!) In glory to His own blest likeness brought!
Oh, Jesus, Lord, who loved me like to Thee? Fruit of Thy work, with Thee, too, there to see Thy glory, Lord, while endless ages roll, The saints the prize and travail of Thy soul.
Yet it must be; Thy love had not its rest Were Thy redeemed not with Thee fully blest; That love that gives not as the world, but shares All it possesses with its loved co-heirs.
Nor We alone; Thy loved ones all, complete In glory round Thee there with joy shall meet, All like Thee, for Thy glory like Thee, Lord, Object supreme of all, by all adored.
J. N. Darby How poor and weak our comprehension. How dull the mind, how slow of heart to believe all and to enjoy all the promises of God.
How often we go about cast down, disappointed, because of earthly conditions, of things temporal, things that have not turned out to our comfort. Perhaps we too have been murmuring and complaining. However, if our hearts are fixed constantly upon the Christ of God, upon the wonderful Riches that are His in Glory, which now also belong to us, there would be no room for care or complaining, impatience or distress. All would be praise and thanksgiving.
It is this in which the Father delights. He loves to hear the voice and praise of those who were once afar off and are now brought nigh, giving thanks in that precious, adorable Name. He loves to see His blood-bought people rejoicing in His Son.