Sanctification Glory
Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 3:17-18
Sanctification is often thought of as merely a moral improvement project. Like church workdays, we have moments where we get into those spiritual closets and clean out the junk and then get back to living. Without question, morality and ethical change are a part of what sanctification includes.
But it is more.
Paul describes it here as akin to Moses’ experience of taking on and reflecting something of the visible manifestation of God’s light or effusion of glory. God was being seen or reflected in Moses’ face.
In some way, Christian sanctification is a taking on of Christ’s manifestation of glory. Sanctification is a gradual, albeit sometimes slow, methodical, progressive “Mount of Transfiguration” whereby we are changed on the inside and begin to reflect that on the outside.
We are changed “from glory to glory,” to and for the glory of Christ, the Glorious One.
