The Weight of Glory
As we give thanks for our sister Lyn Coulter this Sunday, and we think about the realities of death and salvation, we find a huge amount of comfort in Paul’s words in 2Co 4. He puts those realities on the scales – death and suffering on one side; eternal glory on the other – and he concludes the former to be ‘light and momentary’. Even the worst suffering, even for a lifetime, is small compared to the glory that’s in store. Because it’s not just our own glory and eternity, but also the glory and eternity of others, as well as the glory and eternity of God’s character. That is what our suffering and death points to, and that is what makes it bearable and ‘light’.
