11 Sermon Illustrations on Glory Of God

"We are made prophets, priests, and kings: prophets meet to declare God's praises, priests fit for holy ministering, kings to reign over our corruptions here, and with Christ for ever in glory. As the queen is crowned with the king, so shall the church reign with Christ." What a joy it is thus to receive our honours in connection with our Lord! "Crowned with the King"—this is a vast increase of joy! It makes our seat in the heavenlies the more glorious when we remember that we are made to sit there together with him. To rise in his resurrection, to live because he lives, to be crowned in his coronation, and to be glorified with his glory, this is a double, yea, a sevenfold bliss. The queen's coronation with the king is much more joyous to her than if she were crowned alone; for all her husband's honours are her delight, and give her, as it were, another coronation better than her own. O Lord, it seems too great a thing that such a worthless, unworthy creature as I am should be glorified at all; but to be with thee and like thee is a greater glory than even heaven itself would have been if it could have been enjoyed apart from thyself.

I remember, on my return to France, after a long voyage to India, as soon as the sailors had discerned the shores of their native country, they became, in a great measure, incapable of attending to the duties of the ship. Some looked at it wistfully, others dressed themselves in their best clothes; some talked, others wept. As we approached, their joy became greater; and still more intense was it when we came into port, and saw on the quay their parents and children: so that we had to get, according to the custom of the port, another set of sailors to bring us into the harbor. Thus would it be with God's children, if they saw the full and unclouded glory of eternity before they reach the eternal heaven. Dr. Pierre.

As the glory of God infinitely transcends man with all his abilities and honors, so it should be in greater esteem than any or all things that can be brought in comparison with it. Caudray.

After the battle of Marathon, in which Miltiades distinguished himself, Themistocles, then very young, was observed to be very moody, passing whole nights in wakeful silence. Being asked the cause, he said, "The trophies of Miltiades will not suffer me to sleep." In a few years, he became the first man in Greece.

A Christian soldier, whose term of enlistment had nearly expired, was anticipating much pleasure from rejoining his family and friends. Being reminded that he might fall first, he replied, "I know it; but, if I fall, the battle-field will only be a shorter cut to glory." In the battle of the Wilderness, he went home by the shorter way.