“Glory” is one of the most common and significant words in the Bible. Although “glory” is used in several ways, one of its most common meanings is to describe God because His goodness is glory (Exodus 33:18-19).
God created humanity because He wanted him to have fellowship with that glory. Through the prophet Isaiah, God said about man, “Whom I have created for my glory” (Isaiah 43:7, NASB). For some period of time, Adam and Eve had that wonderful, personal fellowship with God, but when Adam sinned and when we sin, we “fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
Even more amazing than the fact that God created us in order to have fellowship with us, is the fact that even after Adam sinned, God still wanted to have fellowship with His creation. The Hebrews writer wanted us to see the significance of that fact, so he asked a thought-provoking question. “What is man, that you remember him? Or the son of man, that you are concerned about him? (Hebrews 2:6).
The great desire of God to bring men back into fellowship with Him brought about the great sacrifice made by the Father and Son. The Hebrews writer explained that Jesus’ loving sacrifice for the purchase of our salvation was through “suffering” (Hebrews 2:10). “Because of the suffering of death (Jesus was) crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone, (Hebrews 2:9). That sacrifice was made to bring “many sons to glory” (Hebrews 2:10).
After Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, He was “taken up in glory” (I Timothy 3:16). Because of what God, the Father and His divine Son did, we also can be taken into glory. “When Christ, who is our life, is revealed then you also will be revealed with Him in glory” (Colossians 3:4). For us to be with Him in glory then, we must be in Christ today. Paul said, “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).
Is Christ in you? “The one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. But if anyone “does not abide in the teaching of Christ, (he) does not have God” (2 John 9). Let us assist you in abiding in the teaching of Christ so that God can bring you to glory.