Romans 8:30 | Your Glory in the Past Tense

Think about the last time somebody told you no about something in ministry you actually wanted. Not a scheduling no. The other kind. The role, the seat, the position that would have said out loud what you were hoping was true about you.

Paul stacks four verbs in Romans 8:30 and puts all four in the same tense, the one you use for something already done. Predestined. Called. Justified. Glorified. He does not say "and those he will glorify one day." You have not been glorified and you know it, but Paul is not confused about your Monday. He is telling you where God is standing when God looks at you. About twenty years ago I lost out on a head worship pastor job for not having the big bombastic voice, and it took a long time to understand that a person not calling me was the smaller of the two things happening.

Anchored in Romans 8:30. Part of a verse-by-verse season through the interior-life chapter of the New Testament.