Glory (Lent A5)

JN 11:4 When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it."

Leon Morris makes interesting observations on Johannine use of Glory.

"It means that the ultimate issue of this sickness would not be death. Rather it would be 'for God's glory' (…Haenchen remarks, 'God's glory does not consist in sparing the faithful life's difficulties')…. Jesus was seen to be at one with the Father, and many came to believe on him (v.45). But the true glory is in the cross and this incident led right on to Calvary (v. 50)."

Is there something in this Lenten period that we see the Glory of God, not in the bright and beautiful, but in the difficult and dark?