The Glory of the Lord is the person and work of Jesus as God's Lamb, the sacrifice for sinners by whom is salvation. Jesus is the brightness of the glory of God.
Though Christ is proclaimed to all the world, yet most do not perceive His glory. This is because of the blindness of unbelief. When God draws us to the Lord Jesus, He shines the light of the Gospel in our hearts, and we suddenly see the Glory in the face of Jesus!
God has before ordained us to be vessels of mercy, that is, to contain or be filled up with Christ and His salvation!
We receive the Glory of Salvation through faith in the promises of God in His Gospel.
Jesus declared to the grieving Martha that He is salvation, resurrection, and rescue from eternal death. That is why, when she objected to rolling away the stone from Lazarus' grave because he stank, Jesus reminded her that, if she believed, she would see the Glory of God! That Glory is Christ and His salvation!
Amazing that God's Glory revealed in Christ accrues to the Saints' benefit! No wonder the Glory in Christ is so delightsome to His people! We are no mere bystanders to His Glory. It is our redemption and rescue!
Why did God so arrange that the pinnacle of His Glory should be our salvation? Because He loved us!
We are poor, lost, helpless, and weak, yet He loves us and benefits us by the Glory that is Christ's work! Therefore, all the glory is God's, and none is ours.
In the Revelation, Christ is constantly described as the Lamb, because that work of redemption at Calvary is the apex of God's Glory in Christ. It is how the Saints will always see Him, for He was slain for us.
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