All Of This Brings You Glory

I have been going along in life pretty secure that I’m supposed to glorify God. It is the chief end of man – To glorify God and enjoy Him forever. I learned that and agree with that creed.

But I was a little “iffy” on what exactly that meant carried out in my daily life. I can find scriptures that glorify God, I can sing songs that glorify God, and I can pray prayers that Glorify God. I just didn’t know how to carry out my day glorifying God without the things I just listed. How does one make toast and glorify God? How does one go through a work day glorifying God? Do I sleep glorifying God? I don’t mean to sound trite and sarcastic. Really, I don’t.  I don’t want to make light of my chief end. I just wasn’t very clear on how to produce the product even though I knew what the product should be. I knew how to do it but not how to be it.

This all was brought about by a chance observation by My Pastor Wade in one of his sermons and a song we are learning for our choir Christmas presentation. My Pastor Wade said we should be teaching this catechism to our children. One of our Christmas songs (In The Highest by David Moffitt, Sue C. Smith, and Krissy Nordhoff) states:

God of wonder, God of light,

King who welcomes shepherds in,

You have cried the tears we cry, and You have walked where we have been.

Battered by this world of woe, we come weak and we come scarred,

Clinging to this simple hope that You will take us as we are.

And all of this brings You glory.

Cry? Walking? Battered? Weak? Scarred? This brings Glory to God? And how will we teach our children to cope with these things as they glorify God?

 So off to my research library I went.

The great missionary, Andrew Murray, wrote, “How can we glorify God? We cannot add to His glory or bring Him new glory. But we can simply allow His glory to shine through us by yielding ourselves to Him, that His glory may manifest itself in us and through us to the world.”

OK, I daily, hourly, minutely (is that a word?) submit to the heavenly Father’s plan for me. I yield to His will not mine. I get that. That clears up the dailiness of glorifying God. That’s gonna be tough to do but it is required. His glory should shine through us to the watching world.

1 Corinthians 6:20 For you were bought with a price (*Christ Jesus paid it with His earthly life): therefore (*honor, value, and submit to Him as God, Savior, and Lord) glorify Him in your body, and in your spirit (*with all of your substance), which are God’s. (*a command, not an option)

*The comments are mine.

John MacArthur says, “That’s the meaning of existence. God made us because He wanted to display His glory. We are display windows from which God wants to reveal His glory to the world as they pass by us.”

(I can explain that to kids. We are a window. When people look in our window they should see God in all of His Glory. So we must keep our window clean. I can even visually illustrate this. Whew.)

We are to live with conscious and even unconscious commitment to being His display window. When people watch us living our lives, they recognize that we are pointing to a God we trust absolutely and believe in wholeheartedly.

So we live, walk, cry, laugh, fall down, get up, sing, make toast, work, and play.

And all of this is aimed at glorifying God.

And all of this brings Him Glory.