A famous poet wrote “The path of glory leads but to the grave;” and how true this is regarding the glory of this world. Whatever fame, riches, honour, power or glory man may acquire down here he must sooner or later relinquish as he passed within the gates of death.
But how great is the contrast with man’s path of glory is the path of the Lord Jesus Christ, who, in spirit in Psalm 16 said, “Thou wilt show me the path of life.” His was a path of suffering and sorrow, though radiant with moral glory; and for those who had eyes to see, the Godhead glory shone through the human veil. So far as this world could perceive, that holy life or sorrow and devotion to the will of God ended in a malefactor’s cross; but the path of the Son of God lay through death, and led upwards to the glory of God. He was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, and is now crowned with glory and honour at God’s right hand, where He awaits the day, so soon to be, when He shall come in His own glory, in the glory of His Father, and the glory of the holy angels.
R. 13.1.62