God's Glory

Creation reveals our creators glory. In nature we learn that God is powerful. That he enjoys variety, loves beauty, is organised and is wise and creative. God’s inherent glory is what he possesses because he is God. It is his nature. But we are commanded to recognise his glory, honour his glory and live for his glory because he deserves it. We owe him every glory we could possibly give. Since God made all things, he deserves all the glory. Jesus told the Father “I brought you glory on earth by doing everything you told me to do.” Jesus honoured the Father by fulfilling his purposes here on earth. When everything or anything in creation fulfils its purpose, it brings glory to God. Birds bring glory to God by flying, nesting and doing other birdlike activities that God intended. We bring glory to God by worshiping him. “in commanding us to worship, God is inviting us to enjoy him” – C.S. Lewis God wants our worship to be motivated by love, thanksgiving and delight not duty. God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in him. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of Divinity. It is a subject so vast that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep that our pride is drowned in its infinity… when we come to this maser-science, finding that our plumbline cannot sound its depths and our eagle eye cannot see its heights, we turn away with the thought, “I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.” No subject of contemplation will tend to humble the mind than the thoughts of God. - Charles Spurgeon. Tags: worship Posted by fyne boi at 14:07 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) | Jesus 2 The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of his. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure. I am finished with low living, sight-walking, smooth knees, colourless dreams, tamed vision, worldly talking, cheap giving and dwarfed goals. I no longer need pre-eminence, position, promotion and plaudits or popularity. I don’t have to be right, tops, first, praised, regarded or rewarded. Now I live by faith, depend on his presence, walk by patience, am uplifted by prayer and labour with power. That is what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. Send that e-mail, make that phone call, write that cheque. David had a string, Rahab had a string, Dorcas had a needle. All were used by God. What do you have? John Wesley said: “do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can in all the places you can at all the places you can, as long as you ever can. With God small deeds count. Wherever we turn in the church of God , there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us… there is nothing good, nothing holy, nothing beautiful, nothing joyous which he is not to his servants. No one need be poor, because if he chooses, he can have Jesus for his own property and possession. No one need be downcast for Jesus is the joy of heaven and it is his joy to enter into sorrowful hearts. A.W. Tozer Posted by fyne boi at 14:04 | Permanent Link | Comments (0) | << previous posts home next posts>>