Have you ever been offered something that seemed too good to be true? Maybe you’ve seen those commercials of people earning $1,000 a day while only working from home. Seemed too good to be true, and ultimately it was. It turns out those commercials were a cunningly veiled pyramid scheme offering something it could not provide. The future they promised simply didn’t exist.
I wonder how many people are worried that if the suffer for Christ, their future glory also doesn’t exist. Allow me to encourage you if you doubt by pointing out that in Romans 8:17 when Paul says, “in order that we may also be glorified with him," Paul is writing in the past tense (technically the aorist tense in Koine Greek). Paul's use of the aorist tense means that the glory he promises is not a future promise, subject to failure, but is a past reality. The hope of future glory is so concrete that it can be spoken of in the past tense as though it has already happened.
Don’t allow worldly failures, or personal shortcomings, or failed promises of financial success to tarnish your faith in God and His promises. Truly, as Paul said in Romans 8:16-17, “The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.”