COLOSSIANS 1:27

“to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” 

I attended the memorial service of a dear saint of God last night. She is experiencing the glory in which she had hoped for decades. She died five days shy of 100 years old and had been a believer for several decades. In her last days, she longed for two things – to see her beloved husband of 63 years who preceded her to glory by ten years and to see her Savior. Her hope is fulfilled now.

This passage is a favorite of mine. Just read it. If you are not a Jewish believer in Christ, you fall into that category of the Gentiles. Paul says, “God willed to make known…the glory” to us. What a huge blessing! What a gift! You and I have this hope of glory because of Jesus. He is in you. He is in me. He reveals to His glory to us by living in us through the Holy Spirit.

APPLICATION

I can’t begin to describe this “hope of glory” better than Albert Barnes does. “This was the great truth which so animated the heart and fired the zeal of the apostle Paul. The wonderful announcement had burst on his mind like a flood of day, that the offer of salvation was not to be confined, as he had once supposed, to the Jewish people, but that all men were now placed on a level; that they had a common Saviour; that the same heaven was now opened for all, and that there were none so degraded and vile that they might not have the offer of life as well as others.”

Isn’t that great? Why do we hope in this glory? Because God promises it. He always delivers. There is no question about this hope. It is not a baseless hope. Through the centuries God has proven Himself faithful, and the culmination of that hope is Jesus. We place our hope in Him and Him alone.

But let me go back to that phrase “Christ in you.” Do you realize tha the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, indwells you as a believer? You are filled! You have all the Spirit. You simply have to allow Him to work. Get your flesh out of the way. Let Jesus through the Spirit live and work in you today.

Father God, I hope in You because I know You are faithful to fulfill all Your promises.