Predestined for Glory

April 18

I Corinthians 2:7 can leave us a bit confused. It makes an amazing assertion that is beyond our comprehension with our finite understanding. It says, “We speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery which God predestined before the ages for our glory.”

How can we speak wisdom that is hidden? How can the mystery of this hidden wisdom predestine our glory? How can God, who “will not share His glory with another” (Isaiah 42:8) state that our glory is already established in His mystery?

As with all wisdom, both hidden and revealed, it is fulfilled in Christ. He is the fullness of all that is God and the revelation of all that is hidden. When we have embraced Him to our heart we become co-heirs of HIS glory! Though it remains true that we have no glory of our own, it is undeniable that He has elected to share His glory with us.

What He has predestined is the fact that fallen man, laden with sin is precious in His sight. The Lord who fashioned us for fellowship with Him and to dwell eternally with Him has supplied the way for that to occur. It is not achieved through our goodness, for we have none, rather, through the goodness of Jesus who lived the perfect life we cannot live—and shares its glory with us.