“What're you going to focus on: the unfair, or all the wonderful things that happen? Both are true, both are real, both need to be accepted. Which carries more weight with you?” ~Louise Penny
We often use the word weight to describe everything that goes wrong in our lives. Weights might be illnesses, financial struggles, or relationships. But the word is a good metaphor. Our hearts feel the weight, but we can also imagine the heaviness on our shoulders.
We should turn to God to lift that weight, but how does that work, and what will it take to make us feel that the unhappy weight has been lifted? We should think of one weight being lifted and another setting down on our shoulders—the weight of glory.
If we use the metaphor of struggles being heavy, then this weight is the opposite. It does not weigh us down but lifts us. The word glory is a funny play on words if looked at from the Hebrew perspective. In most of the Old Testament, it means weight. The Hebrew in this would sound something like “a bigger, everlasting weight of weight.”
God’s glory fills the earth, but through the death of His Son, He shares this glory with us. Glory means untold, unimaginable riches in the most pure and holy way. The glory that God has awaiting us will blow away our most fantastic dreams.
Because of this, like Paul, we don’t lose heart or give up. Whatever you face is light and momentary compared with the incredible reward to come. Focus daily on the weight of glory.
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Olivia Oster is a writer living on Lookout Mountain, GA. Her fiction and poetry explore the spiritual aspect of ordinary everyday life and the elements of life with which she is most familiar: chronic pain, parenting, gardening, cooking, and homemaking. Olivia’s poetry has been accepted in The Reformed Journal and The Lake. She has also published A New Grammary, a grammar book focusing on grammar formulas, and a poetry chapbook called Poetic Faith. Olivia is a teacher, wife, mother of five, and taker of long walks with her rescued dachshund-beagle and chihuahua mini pinscher.