The Excellent Glory
…All have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).
Before Christ came, all men were under the
curse of sin, and were therefore subject to
condemnation, Satan, sickness, disease, poverty and
depravity. This was the consequence of man’s fall in
the Garden of Eden. Adam, before the fall, lived in
the presence of God. God’s presence was his light;
he walked in the presence of God. That connection
or relationship was the glory.
However, he was cut off from that glory when
he listened to Satan and sinned against God. He died
spiritually. Spiritual death is separation from God.
Thus, through Adam’s transgression, all men died
and became separated from the presence—the glory
of God. Now, in Christ, the one who’s born again is
made alive and awakened to the fatherhood of God.
Romans 5:19 lets us know that because all men were
made sinners by Adam’s disobedience, likewise, by the
obedience of Christ, we’ve been made righteous.
We’re no longer separated from the life of God.
By virtue of the new birth, Christ has taken up His
abode in the quarters of our hearts. Christ isn’t around
you, neither is He merely with you; He’s in you: “...
Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).
The glory that was lost in Adam has been restored
in Christ. We’ve been glorified in Christ. Hallelujah!
This glory is even greater than what Adam had in the
Garden of Eden. It’s greater than the glory of the Old
Testament. Our glory in Christ Jesus is “...the glory that
excelleth” (2 Corinthians 3:10); the excellent glory (2 Peter 1:17).
In the Garden, Adam and Eve heard the voice of
the Lord, walking. But with us, the presence of God
isn’t just a voice walking around us; that voice is in
you. You house the glory of God. He lives in you—in
every fibre of your being, in every cell of your blood,
and in every bone of your body. It’s the excellent glory.
Hallelujah!
Confession
My life is a manifestation of the beauty,
radiance and excellence of God, because Christ is in me.
Therefore, sickness, disease and infirmities have no place
in my body. I’m the carrier, as well as the effulgence of the
excellent glory of God, and I continually display the virtues,
splendour and perfections of our glorious Kingdom, in Jesus’Name. Amen.
Further study
2 Corinthians 6:16; romans 8:30; 2 Peter 1:3
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
2 Corinthians 12:1-21
ecclesiastes 3-5
2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
1 timothy 1:8-14
Jeremiah 31