We've Been Offered Glory

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 14^th  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”.

How things go in the realm of God’s Kingdom?

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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