A Journey to Easter - Day 39
- Debbra Stephens
- Apr 12
- 2 min read
For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
(2 Corinthians 4:6 CSB)
In one of his letters to the Corinthians, Paul wrote that God made His light shine “in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6). God’s magnificent light has shone in our hearts. Directly from God Himself! That light of knowledge has revealed the glory of God. And that glory is Christ Jesus, the King of Glory.
The goodness, grandeur, grace, and glory of God undeniably reverberates through Jesus and the gospel He proclaimed. The glory of the Christ arrayed in His miraculous signs and wonders all revealed divine glory. As did His transfiguration, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. And radiant beams of the Lord’s glory shines from the gospel’s red letters like a laser cutting through dark places. It pierces… renews… molds hearts of stone, to be etched by the very Word of God.
May we abide in the “gospel of the glory of Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:1). For Jesus is the Beginning and the End of the gospel. He is the Breadth and Depth of the gospel. He is its Creator and its Content. He is its Glory! C. H. Spurgeon wrote, “The less you make of Christ, the less gospel you have to trust in. A little Christ means a little gospel; but the true gospel is the gospel of the glory of Christ.”
If we want the much-ness of the gospel, we must make much of the Christ.
The glory of the gospel that shines from the Lord shocks dead hearts to life, opens blind eyes to see, delivers the enslaved, sets faith ablaze, and ignites true hope for living.
Peter says that those in Christ are partakers of His glory (2 Peter 1:4). For Christ in us is our glory (Colossians 1:27). But our lives fall drastically short of glory, don’t they? They feel anything but glorious—especially in the face of suffering. But there, too, the gospel radiates the good news that life’s sufferings are preparing for us “an eternal weight of glory” (2 Corinthians 4:17-18). The sheer gospel-truth of it swells hope to tread this valley and gives strength for our journey through it.
Matthew informs us that the Lord will return in glory (Matthew 25:31). And when He appears we also will appear with Him in glory (Colossians 3:4). But God has already “raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms … to show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:6-7). Since we are united with Jesus, we can live the raised life now. Glory be!
By the grace of God, we can bask daily in glory by immersing ourselves in the gospel, where the glory of God, in the majestic face of Jesus, is on full display.
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