Do all for the glory of God. Do not do things to make people feel good, or to help them or to have them like you. But do things so that people will come into their full purpose in life, which is to know and glorify God. This means we will still do many of the same things we are doing, things which help people, but we will do them with a different attitude – we will want to see them glorifying God. We will want to see God glorified by the people we help or work with.
God has a plan to fill the heavens and earth with His glory. He has a plan to fill us with His nature, with His desires so that He can glorify us. God desires to exalt and to glorify what is of Him. He desires to glorify Himself. He does this because He is so much better than any of his creation. It is right and natural for God to exalt what is great and marvelous. This is what is good. God is good and wise therefore He exalts that which is the best and most beautiful That which is best and most beautiful is Himself Therefore He glorifies Himself.
God created us with a heart that could appreciate what is beautiful and marvelous. Satan has blinded us to the glory of God and exalted himself and his ways, which can appear to be better than ours, and deceived us into thinking that he was the most glorious of beings. He was created as one of the highest of the heavenly beings but looked at himself and stopped looking at God and then fell into rebellion against God and tried to lead others into his rebellion. He promised others more than they were receiving from God and deceived them into thinking that being in his kingdom would be better than living in God’s kingdom.
We were created with the ability to appreciate and exalt things. Jesus knew this and lived to exalt His Father. He lived for Him, He lived in Him. He desired for others to come into this place. He humbled Himself and became a man. He became weak like us.
He came to glorify His Father. He came to do the will of His Father. He had faith in His Father‘s plan. He stayed in the corral of His Father’s will. He waited until 30 to begin His ministry. He trusted in His Father’s will and plan. He glorified God in exalting the will of God over His own human will. He glorified God in waiting for His Father’s timing. He was obedient to His Fathers will and His Father’s principles. He let people know that He loved to glorify His Father. He knew He would have to die for our sins. This act would bring glory to His Father. He knew that He was not eternally destined to remain in death. He knew that He was called to glorify His Father by being in heaven with Him. He knew He was the One through whom the Holy Spirit would come to earth so that we too could be filled with the life of God and glorify Him. He even trusted in His Father to raise Him from the dead so that He could glorify God when He would be brought back into heaven. He asked God to glorify Himself so that He could glorify us with His glory so that we too could glorify God. He knew that we needed the life of God in us so that we could glorify God. He would glorify us with His glory so that we could be one with His Father and glorify God
IF WE LIVE TO GLORIFY GOD GOD WILL GLORIFY US
"Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. John 17:24 (NKJ)
We were Created by God to Give Glory to Him
Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth-- Everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him." Isa 43:6-7 (NKJ)
The Bible says that God created us for us to know him and to glorify Him. God is the most beautiful, majestic and marvelous of all the beings in the universe. This is why He calls Himself God. His ways are far above the ways of men. His purposes are superior in wisdom and blessedness than the ways of men or of other created spiritual beings. There are angels who live before the throne of God have watched the actions of God and have seen the being of God for centuries. Their continuing response is to declare that God is holy – superior to all of His created beings, including themselves. (Is 6:3) Jesus came to reveal the greatness of God to us, so that we could know God. The life of Jesus knows the greatness of God. The life that Jesus gives to us reveals to us the greatness of God. Jesus, like His Father wants us to know the greatness of God and to glorify Him, just as He did. (John 17:3-4)
God promises that His people will glorify Him
"And He said to me, 'You are My servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.' Isa 49:3 (NKJ)
God wants the best for His people. He knows that His ways are best. He knows that His plans and purposes for His people are best. He knows that only in living according to His plan for us will we be fulfilled and most satisfied. A butterfly will not be happy if he has been told that he is a worm and should act as a worm, trying to find happiness living by making his home in the dirt. God promises to restore us by putting the life of Jesus into us and uniting us with that life. Jesus found His fulfillment by serving His Father. He found His pleasure in determining and doing the will of His Father. He now reigns in heaven, entrusted with the complete dominion over all of God’s creation. He knows the eternal blessedness of serving God while on earth, and glorifying God through being obedient in His earthly life so that now He can serve God in His heavenly life. (John 17:4, 5, 22)
God will build up His people so they will glorify Him
For the LORD shall build up Zion; he shall appear in His glory. Ps 102:16 (NKJ)
God is a pure spiritual being. He does not have a human body. He communicates to us through our spirits. Our spirits can be oppressed with the cares of life. (Luke 21:34) Our spirits can be wounded by words or actions of others.(Prov 15:4) Our spirits can become deadened by the guilt of sin. (Heb 12:1 ; Rom 8:1) God wants to restore us into being a spiritual people, a people who walk by the impressions of our spirit. Jesus came to heal the wounds in our spirit. (Luke 4:18) The Holy Spirit of God comes to dwell in us and to strengthen our spirits so we can know our God and be filled with His ways. (Eph 3: 16-19) As our spirits become healed and cleansed we will see God and understand His ways. (Matt 5:8) As we continue in this process of being transformed we will know and see the Glory of God. (Heb 2: 9)
Our Primary purpose is to do things that will bring glory to God
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Cor 10:31 (NKJ)
God created us to know and live for His glory. This was discussed at the beginning of this document. As this truth witnesses to our spirits, our primary focus will become to do things so that God will be glorified. Often I have done things which would have people notice me. Often I have done things so that people would know that I cared for them. Often I have done things so that people would be helped and healed and freed from pain or difficulties. Many times the people would respond by telling me what a good person I was or what a great ministry we had or how good they now feel because of what I did for them. These are all good things, but they are not the best things. God would have us do all things to glorify Himself. God would have us seek to focus on doing things that would bring glory to Him.
Our focus then becomes on letting people know that we are committed to doing the will of God as we know it, and what we do is what we believe God wants us to do or say to them. Our purpose in doing then is based on who we are. We are people who are created to glorify God. God has put His life in us through Jesus. We therefore do things that are good for people because it is our nature to want to help people so they can know that they too were created by God to bring glory to Him. Jesus said, ‘Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven’ Matt 5:16 (NKJ)
Jesus did miracles and the people glorified God
So the multitude marveled when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed made whole, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel. Matt 15:31 (NKJ)
Our God is a God who does supernatural things so that people will know His power and love transcends the natural world we live in. God would give His power to humans so that they could help people who were in physical, mental, and physical bondage. Jesus came to free people from these bondages. BUT He did it in a way that the people knew that it was God who was in Christ doing the works. Jesus attested to this truth that it was His Father in Him who did these miraculous works. Jesus was motivated by doing all things to bring glory to His Father. God could then entrust Him with His Divine resources and power to help people. Jesus desires that we too should do miraculous works. But first he must do a more miraculous work in us in freeing us from the desire to draw attention to ourselves. Jesus knows the joy and rewards of living to bring glory to His Father and does not want us to miss out on this highest of the highest motivations and blessings, living to bring glory to God.
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