For His Glory

If you have been in Christian circles for any length of time, you have probably heard that the purpose of our lives is to "glorify God". The Bible dictionary defines this as "the giving of glory to God through acts of praise and obedience. Believers are to glorify God in their lives, as Jesus Christ glorified him in his life." And I agree. Yes. And Amen!

However, this has always been a rather fuzzy concept for me to grasp. How do I do this "glorifying" thing? I'm no seminary trained preacher here, so I'm not going to attempt to explain this, but God has been showing me lately what glorifying Him in my little life is all about.

To bring glory to God, I assumed I should do some great and awesome things with my life. Things that would make a big impact on the world around me. Then God will be pleased and glorified, right? Um, wrong. Once again I need to re-take the class I keep getting an "F" in called "It's Not About Me".

God doesn't need me to DO anything to glorify Himself. He is all perfect, all lovely, all right and true and good. So if He is able to reveal Himself for who is truly is, then those who see Him can't help but praise and glorify Him. This means that my job is to get out of the way and let Him reveal Himself. Meaning I need to quit trying to "do good things" for God, because then the focus is on me and my good things. Instead, I need to step back and look at what He is already doing in my life and praise Him for it!

2 Samuel 7 sums this up just perfectly. King David wants to build a house for God, but God tells David that He will build a house for him instead. Then God reminds him of all the great things He has done for David throughout his life. David is humbled and responds with a whole lot of thanksgiving and glorifying God. 

And if none of that made any sense, here is the bottom line:

God isn't glorified by what we do for Him, but by what He does for us. 

This big old sermon is all to explain the reason for our "For His Glory" page on the blog. We want everyone to see just how amazing our God is, so we will be posting prayer requests and how God answers those requests. We would love to have you pray along with us on this journey! I can't wait to see more and more of Him as He works in our lives!