In order to receive the major theme of God’s Glory in the Old and New Testament we must have spiritual eyes and an open heart. Once our eyes are open to the manner in which Father has chosen to make His Glory known, the Scriptures come alive and life takes on new dimensions because Glory and Agape work synergistically.

We know that God’s Glory consists of His hidden attributes: compassion; graciousness; slow to anger; mercy; truth; covenantal faithfulness; forgiveness. For whatever reason, this unfolding of His Person has not been understood as the content of His Glory. These hidden attributes can only be revealed to a hurting world by means of you and me. He has chosen to reveal Himself through His own people. We are His letters, known and read of all men. It is by the replication of His Agape that we are identified as sons of the Father.

Christ shared His Glory with us, but we need to make a careful distinction between the attributes of God that are intended to be communicated for the purpose of restoring the image of God in man as contrasted with the attributes of God that were never designed to be given to man such as uncreated, omnipotent, omniscient, and eternal. “It is difficult to express in some languages the concept of he also shared his glory with them. This may be expressed as ‘he gave them part of his majesty,’ ‘he gave them some of the wonderfulness which he had,’ or ‘he caused them to be glorious in some way similar to the way he is glorious.’”

God’s Glory in the Old and New Testament is formed in us in a progressive pattern as shown in this diagram. In Numbers 14:21 Israel has transgressed badly, defeat and embarrassment had come because they had “come short of God’s glory.” In that circumstance and climate of failure, God states His intention with an oath: “as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.”

He uses the phrase “as I live” 26 times in the Old Testament. Similarly, in Isaiah, Israel has failed badly, transgressed the covenant and King Uzziah had died. In the midst of failure comes Father’s similar declaration regarding His glory: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory.” His eternal purpose is still in the process of being settled and we progress towards the birth of Christ of Whom it is said in John 1:14, “We beheld His glory.” This glory resident in Christ is imparted to us through the mysterious Seed.

John 14:21 ---> Isaiah 6:3 ---> John 1:14-16 --->Galatians 4:19 ---> Ephesians 3:21 ---> john 17:21

THOUGHTS & QUESTIONS• What does “He also shared His glory with them” mean to you?• In what ways can you see God’s glory as progressive through the Old Testament?

Experiencing this glory leads us to knowing the Father the way He wants to be known. Jesus, as the Lord of the glory, along with the Holy Spirit, takes on the task of teaching us how to continually walk in God’s glory by leading us the way He went—up the Agape Road.

This is what Jesus meant when He said that if we follow Him, He will take us to the Father. God’s glory, as it was shown to Moses on the mountain, is revealed by every action and word of Jesus. When we see Jesus in the Gospels, we see God’s compassion, grace, mercy, truth, faithfulness, and forgiveness walking and talking on the earth.