Glory to God

Over the past few weeks between the NEXT conference, various messages, scripture, and the book “Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ” by John Piper, I’ve been coming across many different points and quotes on giving glory to God. Take some time to read through them—I’ve been challenged!

-Seeing and savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you will ever do.

-If you don’t prize Him above all things, you haven’t apprehended His true worth.

-The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this. “Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth…whom I created for my glory,” says the Lord (Isaiah 43:6-7). To see it, to savor it, and to show it—that is why we exist.

-We were created—that He might “make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy” (Romans 9:23).

-The sun of God’s glory was made to shine at the center of the solar system of our soul. And when it does, all the planets of our life are held in the proper orbit. But when the sun is displaced, everything else falls apart. The healing of the soul begins by restoring the glory of God to its flaming, all-attracting place at the center.

-Christ does not exist in order to make much of us. We exist in order to make much of Him. Christ is not glorious so that we get wealthy or healthy. Christ is glorious so that rich or poor, sick or sound, we might be satisfied in Him.

-To love the glory that comes from God, means we love Christ.

-The pursuit of God’s glory becomes the pursuit of godly ambition.

-The problem isn’t seeking glory—it’s where we find it.

-We are wired for glory!

1 Corinthians 10:31- “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

1 Peter 4:11- “Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as the one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong dominion and glory forever and ever. Amen.”

Have you been giving God glory in all things?
Do you prize Jesus Christ above all things?
Is God’s glory shinning at the center of the solar system of your soul?