The cloud was the ordinary thing; the glory within was now and again manifested, but was always there. The guide and companion of the camp was the Lord of the camp. And is not all this Jesus in a mystery? The glory was the God of Israel (Ezekiel 43:4; 44:2), and Jesus of Nazareth was the God of Israel, or the glory (Isaiah 6:1; John 12:41). The Nazarene veiled a light, or manifested in flesh a glory, which, in its proper fullness, “no man can approach unto” (1 Timothy 6:16). 

   Moses beautifully refused glory, but Jesus hid it. “Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter” (Hebrews 11:24). And a lovely victory over the world that was. We like to wear our honors, to make the most of what we are, and even to take more than we are entitled to, if men will make mistakes in our favor. But Moses humbled himself in the Egyptian palace; and that was beautiful victory of faith over the course and spirit of the world. But Jesus did more. It is true, He had not servants and courtiers to teach, for He was a stranger to palaces. But villagers of Nazareth adopted Him as ‘the carpenter’s son,’ and He would have it so. The Glory of glories, the Lord of angels, the Creator of the ends of the earth, the God of heaven, was hid under that common report, and there He lay without an answer to it. 

The Son of God - J.G. Bellett