Delighting in the Lord

Delighting in the Lord

“That you may drink deeply and be delighted with the abundance of [Jerusalem’s, the church’s] glory.” Isa. 66:11.

This is God’s will, our heavenly calling proclaimed by the mighty prophet Isaiah some hundreds of years prior to Jesus Christ’s coming!

In other words, it pertains to much more than being pardoned and receiving the forgiveness of sins! Isaiah asks in chapter 53, “Who has believed our report?” To how many people has it been revealed that it pertains to something as incomprehensibly great and glorious as delighting in an abundance of glory from God??? This abundance of glory does not consist not of anything earthly and human, but of divine nature (2 Pet. 1), of all the virtues of Christ: of hope, faith, and divine love; of truthfulness, personal righteousness, humility, meekness, mercy, holiness and purity in every possible sense of the word, in all situations just as we read about it in the gospels and the epistles of the apostles and as it was prophesied by the prophets.

This is precisely the reason that the proper preaching of the gospel has to be essentially concerned with this, which it usually is not.

There it says in the last line of Chapter 66, verse 19: “And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.”

Read the approximately one hundred and fifty scriptures in the Bible concordance under “glorious, glorified, glorifying, and glory.” Then you will not doubt what it concerns. 1 Tim. 1:11 tells us clearly what the gospel is all about: “The glorious gospel of the blessed God.”

The gospel is the indescribably glad tidings about our calling to partake of God’s own glory: His mind and His being and virtues—His divine nature— while we are here during our time of sojourning!

This is almost unbelievable, yet it is true!