Glory and Honor

What is this man that our heavenly Father is mindful of him, And the son of man that He visit him? For He had made this man a little lower than the angels, and He had crowned him with glory and honour. But ever since this man, Adam sinned; all man after him had fallen short of the glory of God. The glory that enveloped man had been forfeited. Ever since man first acquire on the art of tailoring,   man to date, still fashion and shop for their clothing.

Praise be to God, our Heavenly Father, for Jesus’ finished work at the cross. For Jesus had received from God the Father honour and glory at the holy mountain when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory saying: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." 

To man, Father crowned man with glory and honour; but to Jesus, His Begotten Son, He crowned Him with honour and glory and by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. 

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the spiritual blessings that Christ, our elder Brother, has brought us from heaven! Long before the foundation of the world, our Heavenly Father had us in mind and had settled on us as the focus of His love, to be made whole and holy by His love. Long, long time ago He too had decided to adopt us into His everlasting family through Jesus Christ, and indeed, He had pleasure in planning all this! He also wanted us to enter into the celebration of His lavish gift-giving by the hand of His Beloved Son.

In an earlier incident when Jesus had been baptized, He came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him.  Wow... the heavens did not just open but specifically open to Jesus! What is this man that our heavenly Father is mindful of him? We regain this glory and honour not because of what good works that we have done but because our Heavenly Father had  made us accepted in the Beloved. The Beloved that the heavens open to! As we begin to humble ourselves to see this gracious truth and identify ourselves with Jesus for all that He had done for us, heavens also begin to open for us, glory begin to shine on us and honour begin to added to us…, its all because we are in the Beloved. 

This is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.