Colossians 1:27
“To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, THE HOPE OF GLORY.”

Did you know that the reason people search for that pot of gold on the other side of the rainbow is because they are searching for their glory? God first designed man before sin and bestowed His glory on man. Man was truly satisfied but fell from glory when deceived by the lie that glory could be found on their own. Whenever we chase after glory outside of God, we make ourselves idols. How many times do we chase after idols? Whether money, success, praise from others, pleasure? And how often do we run to relationship after relationship chasing glory? Nothing wrong with any of those things, nothing wrong with glory either. Remember with glory comes happiness, meaning, significance, hope, fulfillment but when we stop chasing after glory through counterfeits and idols and seek Him first, giving glory to the one and only, guess what happens? The God of glory satisfies us and gives us His glory. The glory from the Father is more satisfying than anything that can come from our meaningless pursuits from other gods. The Psalmist says, “the sorrows of those who run after multiple gods will multiply.” But Christ in us is the hope of glory! He is the hope that will truly satisfy our souls as it was always intended from the beginning. Psalm 8:5
“Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with GLORY AND HONOR.” Let’s live to give our lives to God in praise and worship as living sacrifices, giving up our man made idols for a cheap imitation of glory and in return, we will be filled with more of Him, more of His best, more of His presence, more of HIS GLORY!!!!