The Glory of the Lamb
“He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone erves Me, him My Father will honour” (John 12:25–26).
Daily Fire!
It is my desire to always glorify my Father.
The glory of princes is public adulation and military
display. The glory of man is
conquest, the honour of a world, which has false gods and false desires. The glory of Christ does not triumph over slaughtered armies. We read in
the account of the first miracle at Cana in Galilee, that Jesus “manifested His glory” (John 2:11) in simple red
wine! This speaks to us through Christ’s
words at the Last Supper: “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the
remission of sins” (Matthew 26:28).
In the first chapter of his gospel, John wrote: “We beheld
His glory” (John 1:14). We
appreciate what that glory really was in chapters 12 and 13. It had nothing to do with the heroic
ring by which the world recognizes its glory but rather pointed to the horror of an ugly, but necessary, death. “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be
glorified.…Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains
alone” (John 12:23, 24).
We continue reading in
the account of the Last Supper to the point when Judas Iscariot went out to
betray Jesus: “So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now the Son of Man is
glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will
also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately’” (John 13:31–32).
That glory of Jesus
broke forth at Calvary—the true glory. The glory of heaven was revealed in
those streams of abounding mercy—water and blood from His heart—twin rivers of
cleansing and love. “By that will we have been sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10). “Worthy is the Lamb
who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and honour
and glory and blessing” (Revelation 5:12). Honor the Lamb of God today, and you
will see His glory!