Glorified - That word you keep using, I don't think it means what you think it means.

Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
27 “Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.

28 Father, glorify your name!” (John 12:23, 27-28)

I've been reading in Eugene Peterson's "Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places" (p. 100-103) where he writes about Christ reveal God's glory:  "the presence of God among us; the brightness radiating from God as he moves into our neighborhood".

But here Jesus is talking about being publicly humiliated, stripped, spat on, crucified and calls it being glorified.

Glorified?... That word you keep using, I don't think it means what you think it means.
Peterson says

"At the pivotal centerpoint of his Gospel, John gives us Jesus' most significant and critical, but also most disconcerting, statement on the glory. Jesus is anticipating his imminent death....

Glory, the brightness of God's presence right here on our home ground, clearly has something, maybe everything, to do with his approaching death and burial.

Jesus takes the brightest word in our vocabularies and plunges it into the darkest pit of experience, violent and excruciating death."

Picture I took yesterday at the Nelson-Atkins museum of Art. (didn't get the Artist's name).Note the blood that has fallen on the ground.

Oh, and the best part of Jesus' glory - he prays for his disciples (us included) that we will be glorified with the same glory! "The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one." (John 17:23)

Are you ready for that: "obscurity, rejection and humiliation, incomprehension, and misapprehension, a sacrificial life and an obedient death: the bright presence of God backlighting what the world despises or ignores"?
Am I?