Summary

The Glory Word on the Week 16th August 2025.
When someone looks into the baby’s buggy then after a few minutes of baby talk announces that the child has her mother’s nature. This transfer at natural birth has its equivalent in the spiritual birth, after conversion to Christ. It is not something the new believer is conscious of any more than the child – it just happens!
Sadly, we come short in both things. The Apostle Paul said simply that ‘all have sinned and come short of the glory of God’ (Romans 3 verse 23).
The sinning part of the text is seen everywhere including my heart and yours! God’s glory we usually leave to the Angels or wish Paul had said it plainer.
The Glory of God gets us to the nature of God. How can sinner man ever become a partaker of the Divine nature? Only if it is received at conversion.
You could say God laid the foundation for it when he made Humankind in his own image (Genesis 1 verse 27). There was the potential to reflect God’s glory from the start. Evidence of it could be found throughout the Old Testament.
But even in the Lord Jesus Christ it was not recognised by all. The glory was veiled by the flesh. It takes the eye of faith to see it. The Apostle John says His glory was seen as the one and only son who reflected the image of the Father full of grace and truth (John 1 verse 14).
The Apostle Peter writing to the people of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ back in his day explains that we have all we need for life and godliness gifted to us. We have something of the glory of God implanted in us and, like the child in the buggy participating in the mother’s nature, we participate in the Divine nature (2 Peter 1 verses 2 to 4).
What a dreadful thing sin is. It robs us not only of our being in the right with God. It robs us also of the glory of God. What a contrast we have in the salvation Christ procured on the cross granting the repentant one, forgiveness of sin and a righteousness from God’. It also grants me glory.
As Romans 8 verse 30 states ‘those he justified he also glorified’.
The remedy for our condition depicted in Romans 2 verse 23 is provided in the wonderful fullness of the salvation Jesus Christ has secured for us.
Trust Him!