“A Crown Of
Glory”
Isaiah 62:3
In Isaiah 28:5, we read, “In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people.” Wondrous as that promise is, it is conceivable. The Lord our God shall be, in the Person of his Son, our everlasting crown and our diadem of beauty in heaven’s eternal day. He will add to us infinite, indescribable glory and beauty, crowning us with lovingkindness and tendermercies. That is a marvelous promise of grace. Yet, it is a promise that I can conceive in my mind. However, the promise of Isaiah 62:3 is altogether inconceivable.
“Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the
hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.” In this text
the prophet is not describing what God shall be to his people, but what we
shall be to our God. In eternity, the church and
As a crown is a display of a king’s glory, so every saved sinner is a display of God’s glory. Notice that this crown is pictured as being in God’s hand, not on his head. There is a reason for that - We do not add anything to God’s glory. He is glorious without us! Do not ever imagine that the Almighty needs us to make himself happy, complete, or glorious! God is glory! He is superlatively independent and complete. God lacks nothing. God needs nothing. God gets nothing from his creatures.
Yet,
saved sinners are a crown of glory to God in the sense that in us the triune
God shows forth his glory (Eph. 1:6, 12, 14; 2:4-7; I Cor.
We are a crown and diadem in God’s hand. He
has his church in his hand as a rich and valuable possession. He will not allow
his crown to be trampled upon or taken away. And he holds us in his hand as the
work of his hand. “We are his
workmanship,” the work of his hands, his masterpieces (Eph.
Don Fortner