Rich in Glory

Love puts Glory upon the beloved object. The Father's Love and the Father's Glory was all His in eternity.
Again we must turn to His own words to learn His eternal glory. When He uttered that marvelous prayer in the presence of the Father, He made the following request, "And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was." John 17:5 How simple and definite this statement is. He had a glory with the Father before the world was; He is the effulgence of the Father's glory. Heb. 13 But who can tell what that glory really was? What human eye could fully gaze upon that glory? Seers of old had visions of the Glory of the Lord. They saw the heavens opened and received faint glimpses of the glory of the Lord.
Whose actual glory was it they beheld?
A passage in the Gospel of John gives us the answer. "These things said Esaias, when he saw His glory, and spoke of Him." John 12:41 The prophet Isaiah saw the Lord and beheld His glory, and the New Testament tells us that it was the glory of the only begotten, the Son of God. What a glorious place it must have been where He was in all eternity, which, while on earth, He called, the Father's house. John 14:3 What scenes of joy and praise, when the morning stars spoke together and the sons of God, the holy angels, clapped their hands for joy. And He was the center of that Glory. To fully understand it all, we must wait till we enter that place above, when we, with all His redeemed people are with Him,. He will then show us fully His Glory.
We dare not add another word to that which we have written. Scripture gives us no other description of His eternal Riches, than these three Riches in possessions; all are His; Riches in Love; and Riches in Glory.
What a theme to meditate upon.
What joy in believing in Him "Who was rich."
Full enjoyment of the blessed Gospel is an impossibility unless we have a consideration of his eternal Riches before us.