Destined for Glory

 DEVOTION

THE 1^ST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS

DESTINED FOR GLORY

1 Cor 2:6-10

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"— 10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.

NIV

The people of the  world will never understand for they are too busy feeding their own appetites. However, God’s plan has always been to bring his creation into his glory, and that is only going to happen through Jesus Christ crucified. Yet, the rulers of their world did just that, they crucified the Lord of glory. It is interesting that the wisdom of this world was used to reveal the wisdom of God. It is also interesting that among the mature there is a teaching of God’s secret wisdom which has to do with us being destined for glory. Paul is comparing the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of God. No one who is living to satisfy their own desires, the people of the world, those who have rejected Jesus or serve some god of their own design can hear or listen or see the truth of God. They are blinded by their own appetites for the things of this world.  Even we believers within our own humanity cannot fully comprehend what God has prepared for us that love him. However, we do not need to try to understand, or figure it out, because the Spirit has revealed to us all that God has prepared for us. We know that Jesus told his disciples, which would include all of us who are his disciples, which simply means a learner, a pupil, that he was going to prepare a place for us, and that he would come back and take us to this place. This may only be a part of the glory that God has prepared for us. However, as we fellowship with the Spirit, he reveals more and more of the glory that God has prepared for those who love him. Although some might think that when we die, we go to heaven, and in a sense, our spirit will leave our body and be in the presence of God. However, it is the resurrection of the body, when our bodies will be raised imperishable, glorified, incorruptible, and become the eternal being that God designed us to be. This will not happen in heaven, but on the earth and we will live in our glorified bodies in the new city of Jerusalem with God being the light. There are glories upon glories that await us and we can see and we can hear because the Spirit who dwells within us, reveals all the glory that we are destined for.