What the New Age offers
The New Age movement is said to offer opportunity for spiritual consciousness and continual growth and transformation. This sounds a bit vague. I think, in real terms, most people are looking to the New Age for happiness, power, status and prestige, love, prosperity, and success. And yes, the New Age movement claims you can have it!
I’m going to call all this ‘glory,’ even though that’s an old fashioned term which is hardly used today. I’m calling it that because the Bible often uses the word.
The word glory appears more than 400 times in Scripture — a recurring theme that reveals God’s desire to lift His people from humble beginnings to eternal purpose.
The Bible promises that the spiritual body of Christ will one day share in His glory and rule with Him (Revelation 1:6; 5:10).
From Least to Greatest: The Biblical Pattern
The Bible shows that there is a battle between God’s ways of love, freedom and truth versus Satan’s principles of fear, pride, greed and deceit.
There is a spiritual battle going on. The god of the occult is big into materialism. But worshipping this god leaves people struggling, miserable, dissatisfied and empty.
God has a better plan!
Throughout Scripture, God raises His people from weakness to glory.
- David was a shepherd boy and then an outcast before becoming a king.
- Gideon was the least in his family, yet God made him a mighty deliverer.
- Joseph went from a pit (Genesis 37:24) to a prison (Genesis 39:20) — and finally to a place of honor and glory in Egypt: “And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt…” — Genesis 45:13
God wrote this plot in advance (Gen 37:5). God was with Joseph in the pit and through the years in prison, directing the storyline all the way!
“You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good…” — Genesis 50:19-20
The New Age’s Counterfeit Light
Like Christianity, the New Age movement speaks of light, transformation, and awakening — but it redefines the source.
It teaches that divinity lies within, that humanity can ascend to godhood through self-realization and positive energy.
It’s the same ancient deception whispered in Eden:
“You shall be as gods.” — Genesis 3:5
God does invite us into His family (John 1:12), but not through self-exaltation. The difference is profound:
- The New Age glorifies the self.
- Christianity glorifies the Creator.
In New Age thought, glory is found by looking inward and attempting to change our vibration.
In the Bible, glory comes from above — it’s given as an amazing, divine gift from God when we align with his teachings on how to live according to his will. It doesn’t come through self reliance, or vibrating a certain way so we can just attract success without being in harmony with God’s other laws.
God’s Promise to the Body of Christ
The Bible reveals that believers form a single spiritual body — the Body of Christ — destined to share in His Kingdom and glory.
“[He] has made us kings and priests unto God… and we shall reign on the earth.”
— Revelation 1:6; 5:10
This glory isn’t a mere spark of self-awareness — it’s the presence of Christ living within:
“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” — Colossians 1:27
Glory Through Suffering
The path to true glory doesn’t bypass hardship. It passes through it.
“In bringing many sons unto glory, [God made] the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.”
— Hebrews 2:10
Just as Joseph, David, and even Jesus were refined through suffering, so too are believers shaped through trials. The journey from pit to palace begins in humility and seeking to obey God, and ends in resurrection.
The Nations and the Coming Kingdom
God’s glory isn’t limited to individuals — it will encompass entire nations:
“The nations… shall walk in the light of it… and they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.”
— Revelation 21:24–26
Every obedient nation and redeemed culture will reflect a facet of God’s beauty. The whole world will radiate with His light — far beyond any manmade enlightenment.
“As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like Him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord’s Spirit.”
— 2 Corinthians 3:18 (ISV)
The Final Contrast
| The New Age | The Bible |
|---|---|
| “Find the light within yourself.” | “I am the Light of the world.” — John 8:12 |
| You ascend by self-effort. | You are raised by obedience, then by Christ’s power. — John 14:15, 2 Tim 2:12 |
| Glory is human potential. | Glory is divine inheritance. — Romans 8:18 |
| Truth is relative. | Truth is a Person — Jesus Christ. — John 14:6 |
The True Glory Awaits
The New Age offers an attractive illusion — a fading glow of self-made light.
But the Gospel offers something infinitely greater: eternal glory with Christ.
What that means is finding happiness, power, honour, love, prosperity, and success within the framework of God’s blessings, rather than self-seeking or self-glorification coming from self-reliance.
“If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him.” — 2 Timothy 2:12
From pit to palace, from prison to praise, from dust to the throne — God’s story ends in triumph for those who walk in His light.
So the question remains:
Will you follow the flicker of human enlightenment — or the eternal radiance of the risen Christ?
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