What a Wonderful Delight!

What a Wonderful Delight!

“That you may delight yourself in the fullness of her [Jerusalem’s, the church’s] glory.” (According to the old Norwegian translation.)

As we can see, this is God’s will, our heavenly calling, proclaimed by the great prophet Isaiah, hundreds of years before Jesus’ appearing.

Therefore salvation is indescribably much more than the atonement and the forgiveness of sins!!! However, Isaiah asks in chapter 53, “Who has believed our report?”

To how many people has it actually been revealed that it is a matter of such unspeakably great and glorious significance that we delight in the fullness of glory here on earth, in the midst of the church of the living God, as we are now experiencing it in our midst by God’s tremendous grace?! This glorious fullness does not consist of any earthly or soulish feelings, but rather of partaking of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1)—of partaking of all the many virtues of Christ, such as hope, faith, obedience, the love of Christ, fellowship of the Spirit and unity, truthfulness and personal righteousness, meekness and humility, mercy, patience, and being longsuffering with all the others, holiness and purity in every sense of the word; and this in in all kinds of situations, just as we can read in the gospels (for example, in the Sermon on the Mount) and in the apostles’ weighty epistles, and as it was prophesied by the prophets.

This is precisely why the preaching of the true gospel must fundamentally be concerned with all this glory (1 Pet. 2:9), which, undeniably, is undeniably not done!

Therefore it says in the same chapter in verse 19, “And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.” Read the approximately one hundred and fifty scriptures in the Bible concordance under: glory [verb], glorified, glorifying, and glory [noun], and you will not doubt what it concerns.

We are also clearly informed about this in 1 Timothy 1:11: “The glorious gospel of the blessed God.”

The gospel is the incredibly glad tidings about our calling to partake of God’s own glory—even the fullness of His glory— while we are here during the time of our sojourning! In other words, partaking of His mind and being!

This is almost unbelievable, yet it is absolutely true.