Choose Eternal Glory

Tuesday 1 September
READ: Luke 16: 19 - 31
MORE LESSON: Matt. 6:33

There are different types of glory as expressed in 1 Cor. 15: 40 – 41; There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is the earthly and the eternal glory. There is a major interrelationship between the earthly and eternal glory that you must never forget.

Eternal glory can bring earthly/physical glory but earthly/physical glory cannot bring eternal glory. You may have wealth and glory here on earth and do not have eternal glory. However, spiritual glory can bring earthly glory which will last forever. This is amply captured in Matt. 6:33, which says, But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. This means that when you have spiritual life which is the eternal glory, every other thing will be added. When you carry the grace of God, that is, you are born again and doing the things of God, every other physical thing can be added to you. However, if you are not born again even if you are a church goer or church worker, whatever you have physically cannot qualify you for everlasting life. The fact that you are born again gives you access to glory even on the face of the earth. But if you have everything beautiful on the face of the earth it does not guarantee you access into eternal glory.

If you are wise therefore, what should be your choice? There is one that can attract the other, and there is the other one which cannot attract the first. There is one which is permanent and the other which is temporal. Which should you aim for? Go for eternal glory because it will deliver to you earthly glory. There are many who are not interested in the things of God; they are so cumbered with worldly pursuits, great ambitions and quest for fame. If those are your life pursuits, I warn you that you will fall prey to the hand of the devil because he can afford all these things for you. But if your pursuit is God and His kingdom, then you have eternal glory and even in this earth you will live a glorious life.

The rich man in the story in Luke 16: 19, had glory while on earth, but because he didn't choose to get eternal glory, he found himself in hell where he was begging for water not even to quench the fire but for a drop to assuage his thirst. That tells you what happens to a man who chooses earthly glory over eternal glory. The Bible describes hell as a place where worms eating up men do not die. The greatest pain in hell is not the fire but the thirst and regret. Heaven, on the other hand, is a place of eternal glory; choose correctly.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that you will never substitute holy glory for earthly glory.
* Pray that as you choose eternal glory, other things shall be added according to scriptures.
* Pray that no earthly thing will take eternal glory from you. 
* Ask that no earthly pressure will stuff eternity from you.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Thank You ancient of days for a new month; make this ninth month a mighty month for me, in the name of Jesus’.