2 Thessalonians 1:10 to 12

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe because our testimony among you was believed in that day.
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

When Jesus comes, He will not only be glorified among His saints.

He will be glorified in them.

That is almost too much to take in.

We are used to glory going one direction. We admire Him. We worship Him. We sing to Him.

But Paul says there is coming a day when people will look at believers and see Christ shining through them.

Right now, this is what Scripture calls the day of man. Reputation matters. Influence matters. Popularity matters.

But this is not our day.

There is another day coming.

And on that day, Jesus will be admired in all who believe.

Picture it.

You see someone across eternity and think, I never saw it clearly before.

I thought you were odd.
I thought you were difficult.
I thought you were distant.

And now Christ is unmistakable in you.

All the fear gone.
All the pride gone.
All the misunderstandings gone.

What remains is Jesus.

That is why Paul prays the way he does.

That God would count you worthy of this calling.

Not worthy because you earned it. Worthy because He is shaping you for it.

That your faith would be completed with power.

That the name of the Lord Jesus would be glorified in you.

In you.

Which means the process has already begun.

Every quiet act of obedience. Every time you forgive when it costs you. Every moment you trust Him instead of yourself. Those are brushstrokes on a canvas you cannot yet fully see.

One day the painting will be complete.

And we will stand in awe, not of ourselves, but of Christ in one another.

What if we began living that way now?

What if we stopped measuring one another by personality or history and started asking, where is Jesus forming here?

Paul says he wants to know no man after the flesh.

That means looking past the surface.

Seeing with eternity in view.

There is a day coming when Christ will be clearly seen in His people.

But we do not have to wait until then to start looking for Him now.