The Weight of Glory

As sunset-lit moon rises up in the sky
While its colored dimness grows beautifully bright,
So we who belong to the King reigning high,
From glory to glory increase in Your light.
We’re reflections of You, Lord, with faces unveiled,
Beholding the glory of God in this place,
Displaying for others a glory much paled
Through troubles and trials with vision and grace.
Your Spirit brings freedom and light to our lives
As we bow our hearts and our wills to Your love.
“Light afflictions” teach faith as our outer man dies
While our inward man fixes our eyes up above.
Holy Spirit, please, help us keep turning to You,
For Your holy, eternal, glorious weight still renews.

2 Cor. 3:16-18 “Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

2 Cor. 4:16-18 “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”