God’s Glory Not Ours
God’s Glory Not Ours – Our Lives Have Meaning
Hey Beautiful!
Don’t look around, I’m talking to you!
So you may not have the superficial good looks that Hollywood celebrates, but you do have something much, much more.
Deep inside.
A beauty more real and authentic.
You should look in that mirror, child of God, and remember that God thought enough of you to share you with the world!
I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in Gods thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.” – George Macdonald, christian theologian.1
We are here to know Him and bring Him the glory.
God’s glory not ours.
The blessings of that very real relationship are joyful and eternal.
Extraordinary Things for God’s Glory Not Ours
We know from the Bible that God often chose the most ordinary people to do great things in history.
Moses had no confidence in his speaking ability.
The apostle Paul had a mysterious thorn in the flesh to restrain any ounce of pride that might surface as he shared the gospel message.
Those are just two historical examples of God’s people who overcame circumstances in their lives to bring God the glory.
When you turned your life over to Christ, you became a beautiful new creation.
Your soul is valuable to God, and don’t let anyone who hates Christianity tell you otherwise.
In Ephesians, the Apostle Paul assures us that all of God’s people have access to God’s immeasurable love and grace. Our salvation is nothing we can do on our own.
We deserve eternal death, but are saved by His grace, through our faith.
One body of believers holding to the absolute truth of the one true God.
19So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, 20having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, 21in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, 22in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. – Ephesians 2:19-22, (NASB).
Look to the cross – that’s how valuable you are to Him.
There’s nothing more beautiful than that – the One who gave us the promise of eternal life would make the ultimate sacrifice to save us from dying unredeemed in our own sins.
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1 George MacDonald (CS Lewis mentor) quotation, courtesy of and as quoted from Christian quotes.info
2 Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.
