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Here we continue to rejoice over our Great Salvation in JESUS! Today: “He chose the shame of weakness so that we can know the hope of glory.” The hope of glory.
With Jesus you could never tell. I mean, Lazarus was raised from the dead. So were others. People were cured of the incurable, like leprosy. He stilled the violent storm.
So Jesus died on the cross, but what if He brought himself back to life? Scary thought for His murderers. At any moment, something could happen. But nothing happened. No angelic intervention. No reply from heaven. No miracle. By the end of that fateful afternoon it appeared to doubters and believers alike that Jesus had completely and totally FAILED to prove His claims.
Jesus’ body hanging on the cross at Calvary appeared to dispute His claim to be the Son of God. No one understood that Jesus had chosen to surrender — to weakness. That surrender began with a prayer for glory. “Father, the time has come.” Jesus prayed that the Father would glorify His son. John 17:1.
Yet there was no appearance of glory that day on Golgotha. No one saw glory that day. Yet decades later Peter wrote — with eyes of faith and saw past the violence of the cross to the Glory that Christ had won there. Peter declared, “We were eyewitnesses to His majesty. 2 Peter 1:16.
To win glory for us, Jesus willingly remained on the cross, refusing to use the power at His disposal to end the shame. It was the real miracle of Calvary. Somehow, in that public defeat of Jesus on the cross, the Son of God forged our greatest victory.
In the shame of the cross Jesus proved all His claims and had won the GLORY. Can you imagine — using death to conquer death? Yet that is exactly what Jesus did!
Colossians 1:27 “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Yes one day we will experience the redemption of our bodies, and behold Jesus in His full glory.
It’s this glorious hope we have my friend, a promise strong enough to make you — COME ALIVE!
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