Glory to Glory

Aimee  – March – 2025 

I’m driving down the coast in the early hours of the morning, the road stretching ahead like a quiet invitation. The fog is thick, heavy, so much so that the dawn seems to struggle to push her light through in any semblance of  radiance. No golden beams breaking through the clouds. No breathtaking sunrise painting the sky. Just mist, dense and unrelenting, turning the world into a hazy, golden blur. The light is there, I know it is, but down here, it’s hard to see. The road ahead is only visible a few meters at a time, the tree-lined roadside dissolving into loose, shifting shapes and shadows. But then, I crest a hill. Just for a moment, I rise above the fog, and there it is, the peak of a mountain bathed in perfect light, standing untouched above the cloud cover that stretches endlessly below. I take in the contrast, the clarity above, the obscurity below. Life’s like this isn’t it? The light isn’t any less glorious because it falls on mist instead of a clear sky. There’s beauty in both. 

You’ve probably heard it preached a hundred times, “We go from glory to glory.” Maybe you’ve even declared it over your life, expecting that as you walk with God, things will get smoother, easier, more purposeful, clearer. But here you are. Struggling. Wrestling. Feeling like you’re stuck in a cycle you can’t break free from, wondering if maybe something’s wrong with you. Trying and failing to reconcile your now against the promise of glory to glory.   

Because if you were really going from glory to glory, wouldn’t life look… well, more glorious? Wouldn’t the battles be fewer? Wouldn’t the breakthrough come quicker? Wouldn’t you feel like you’re moving up, or at the very least forward, instead of constantly fighting to keep from falling down?  If you were moving to greater glory surely that would mean a greater revelation of direction, it would hold such a clarity and the fullness of the road ahead, but yet here you are, second guessing still. Has God forgotten you? 

But what if you’ve been measuring the wrong kind of glory?  What if glory doesn’t look the way we think it does?

The world has taught us to see glory as shiny, polished, and victorious. To the world glory looks like smooth sailing, always overcoming (and seemingly with no battle scars to show for the journey.) Polished and perfected. The big promotion. The answered prayer. The problem that vanishes overnight. The moments when everything clicks, and we feel God’s favor like warm sunlight on our skin.  

And when life doesn’t look like that, we assume we must have taken a wrong turn. That God has stepped back. That maybe we just don’t have what it takes to get from this glory to that glory.  

But what if that was never the kind of glory God was talking about. 

 When Paul wrote, “we are being transformed from glory to glory” (2 Cor. 3:18), he wasn’t talking about climbing some ladder of success or collecting spiritual trophies. He wasn’t referring to up ranking in kingdom positions. He didn’t mean a platform, a following or a title.  He was talking about transformation, the slow, deep, refining work of becoming more like Jesus.  

Real glory rarely looks like what we expect. See, the sunlight that touched the mountain peak was no stronger than the light filtering through the mist, circumstance and position meant it was perceived differently, not because the light changed, but because of how we receive it.

Real glory is Moses, standing in the cleft of the rock, desperate to see God’s face, but only catching the afterglow of His presence.  
It’s Paul, with chains around his wrists, writing about joy from a prison cell.  
It’s Jesus, stripped, beaten, nailed to a cross, and in that moment, revealing the fullness of God’s glory.  

What if the very thing you think is proof that God has left you, or is displeased with you is actually the evidence that He is doing His deepest work in you?

What if the glory isn’t in escaping the struggle but in being transformed through it?  

If you were to pause and look at your life right now, the disappointments, the delays. The redirections you never saw coming. The things you wish God would change already. What if instead of asking, “Why isn’t God moving me from glory to glory?”, you asked, “How is God revealing His glory in this?” Because sometimes all it takes to see and understand differently is asking different questions. 

Because glory isn’t about climbing higher. It’s about seeing Him clearer.  
Glory isn’t about escaping the fire. It’s about being refined by it.  
Glory isn’t about you looking more together. It’s about Him becoming more visible in you.  

Your struggles are not proof that God has abandoned you. They are the very place He is revealing His presence. The breaking, the stretching, the wrestling, it’s not a detour from glory. It is the work of glory alive in you, through you, that He be glorified.   

Friend, if you can let go of what you thought glory would look like, you might just find that you’re standing in it already.  

Right here. Right now.  

He is taking you from glory to glory. You just have to open your eyes to see it.  

Are you willing to see differently?

Be blessed,

Aimee

Bold Existence Team