The Bible is a story of glory to glory. And it is the glory of the first to prepare and give way to the second. This is not identical glory. There is a glory in being first, in being the older. But that glory serves and strengthens and then relinquishes to the glory of the second, the last, the younger. And we catch glimpses in the Bible. We see Jonathan, Saul’s son, gladly give way to David, God’s anointed king. We see Elijah give way to his disciple Elisha, who has a double-portion of his spirit. We see John the Baptist, the older cousin, decrease when the Younger, who is truly Greater, arrives. And we must have our imaginations shaped by this pattern.
