I just returned from Charlotte, North Carolina.  I was there to watch my grandson, Sammy, graduate from App State Cum Laude.  Wow!  I am so proud of him!  As I watched the graduation service I was reminded of how God want us to graduate from one stage to another.

I have an old Webster's dictionary from 1852 and I looked up graduate and this is what it says; A series of ascending steps or degrees, or a proceeding step by step: hence, progress from one degree or state to another.  That brought 2 Corinthians 3:18 to mind. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit.

I love the fact the God is taking us from glory to glory.  To go from glory to glory - to be ever-increasing in glory - is to continually be changed into what you were created to be. It is to be conformed to His likeness. It is increasing in the character and nature of God.

I am so grateful that He is still working on me and graduating me from one stage of glory to another!  What an exciting journey to walk with the Lord!  Happy Graduation!

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