He taught in
the meeting places and He offered everyone glory!...Lk 4 :14,
TPT
You read it right: Jesus offers everyone glory. That
was The Passion Translation’s rendering of the later part of the 14th verse of Luke chapter 4. In the footnote the translator
states that this is a literal translation from the Aramaic text.
I was stunned when I first read it. Never read it this
way; I bet you too.
Jesus went about teaching in the synagogues, and He offered
everyone glory! But what exactly does He mean by “glory”? Perhaps the following
verse would shed some light on the matter:
But Jesus
said, “Don’t you know there are other places I must go so I can offer to them
the hope of God’s kingdom-realm? This is what I have been sent to do.”…Lk
4:43, TPT
So by “glory” Jesus meant “the hope of God’s
kingdom-realm”.
In God’s kingdom there can be no shame, no sickness,
no strife, no oppression, no bondage, no poverty and no lack of any kind. And
Jesus offers us the hope of being in such a state - a state of shalom peace.
Instead of shame we could have honor; instead of sickness we could have health;
instead of strife we could have peace; instead of oppression we could have
liberty; instead of poverty we could have wealth and instead of lack we could
have abundance.
This is glory!
There are two more things about this glory.
Firstly, it has been offered to us by Jesus. We are not called to attain it.
Secondly, the glory is here and now. If it were not
so, Jesus would not have asked us to pray “your kingdom come, your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven”. Too many believers are waiting to get to heaven,
whereas the Lord wants them to usher in heaven on earth now.
Glory! Glory! Glory!
You have been offered GLORY! Take it.
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