Our objective is to obtain His glory.  It is to us who are to “by patient continuous seeking his glory honor and immortality” in the here and now. To partake of His glory and victory. Not having our own righteousness, not having our own glory but that which is by faith in Jesus Christ. These terms are part and parcel of the gift of God . Faith is the invisible work that we must do. We exersize our belief and trust in Him. We associate with Him in His death, resurrection and ascension being seated in victory. Not our own. For the one who is in us who is greater in us, is the one who is in complete in victory, glory and honor not having to return to the battle field to fight another day as though the cross was not sufficient.

The war becomes for us the battlefield of our mind. Our own Galgatha. The overcoming and conquering is as we grow in understanding Him as He truly is and believing His word and this becomes our reality. For nothing has overtaken us that is not common to man but with it God has given a way out. This way out is His glory. There is no battle between God and Satan for he was defeated as displayed at the cross for it is Jesus who said in Rev 1.18″I am He who lives and was dead, but I am alive eternally, and I have the keys to death and Hades”. And 1 John 3.8 “the Son of man was manifest to destroy the works of the devil” and Heb 2.14 He partook of humanity to destroy him who had power over death, the Devil. There is more but you get the point.

This is “the hidden mystery of God ordained for our glory. To freely know the things that have been given to us by the Christ of the cross, not of a second coming. For had the rulers of this world known they would not have slain the Lord of Glory”. To them the very act of crucifying Christ looked like their victory, but it was ours. It is because of the cross that He shares His victory with us. This is not relegated to a second coming  but now by faith. They saw death, we see life. They saw a pauper ride into Jerusalem on a donkey to later be crowned with a curse of thorns. We see a white horse whose rider wears garments dipped in His own blood for us. Who is crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The name He had before His humanity. Lord and supreme over everything. He is not a coming one, or a becoming one. For the word was spoken at the begininng. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. It is as we recieve Christ as He truly is we too share in His Glory. We are victorious. The same victory the rulers of this age sought to steel remained on Christ for our glory. It is as we behold that glory we see Him as invincible but not because He gained it but because He never lost it. The eternal One cannot loose it or gain it or He is not eternal. He can only continuelly display who He already was and always will be.