Weight of Glory (6) Now the Heavy Stuff

“For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison” 2 Corinthians 4:17

Weight of Glory – Matthew 20:12.  Acts 15:28.  Galatians 6:2.  Heavy loads.  Heavy guilt.  Heavy consequences.  This word (baros) paints of picture of things too burdensome to bear.  But in this verse it is combined with another word, doxa, glory.  And that combination shifts the meaning.  Now it is too wonderful to bear.

The unbearable lightness of being.  The glory of God made manifest.  Have you ever been in the immediate presence of His glory?  The unimaginable homogenization of awe and fear.  Of unquestionable acceptance and impossible love.  The weight of wonder and the weightlessness of intimacy.  Forever and ever.  Amen.

This is transfiguration on a personal scale.  This is eyes toward heaven, face on the ground.  Trembling exuberance and peaceful submission.  This is weight from another place, not of this world.

Our lives are so susceptible to the washed-out colors of the daily due diligence.  We live from one load of laundry to the next, from one stoplight to the next, from one meeting to the next.  The siren call (that’s Greek mythology, not the police) of life without troubles is a spring-trap of the enemy.  No one ever entered the Kingdom without following the King, and he travels a very rocky road (Hebrews 12:2).

Why do you chafe under His direction?  Have you not understood?  God engineers life for two reasons:  His purposes and our perfection.  What today brings is in His hand, passed to me so that I can hold His hand.  The weight of glory rides in the balance.  God intends my metamorphosis.  I am His alchemy project.  He will transform me from sinner to saint.  I have His promise on that.

How much weight are you carrying?  How much of that weight is the burden of His glory?