There will be a scene of glories when the kingdom comes. We commonly speak of "glory" as if it stood in that connection only, but this is wrong. Glory will be displayed then, it is true; glory will then be in the circumstances of the scene. But a much more wonderful form of glory is known already, and that is in the gospel. There God Himself is displayed—a more wondrous object than all circumstances. The glory of the gospel is moral, I grant, not material or circumstantial; but it is glory of the profoundest character. There, again I say, God Himself is displayed. The just God and yet the Savior is seen there. Righteousness and peace shine there in each other's company—a result which none but God Himself, and in the way of the cross, could ever have reached.
The gospel calls on sinners to breathe the atmosphere, as I may say, of salvation, to have communion with God in lave, and to maintain it in liberty and assurance; and there is a glory in such thoughts and truths as these which indeed excels.