Many of us desire God to be glorified, to be glorified through us.
But have you thought deeply about what that means?
Do His people really mean that? Do they really want God to be
glorified through them in this world?
Brethren, it will take the death of you for God to be glorified through you. There will be many times you will look like a fool if God is to be glorified
in you. You will lose your reputation and many times be humiliated
for God to be glorified in you.
Deny yourself, forsake all, hate your life, take up your cross.... Your
love for God should be so great that it even seems to others as if you
hate your family because God is even above them! These are some of
the things that God commands of your life in order that God would be
glorified.
In verse John17:1 Jesus says to his Father: The hour has come.
Glorify your Son that your Son may also glorify you. This glorification he speaks of was the cross. We should have the same mind as Jesus. It is through the cross that we will glorify our Father. It is the death of you that will bring glory to Jesus.
Do you really mean it when you end your prayers that God would be glorified through you?
Ask yourself this: Do you desire like Paul to fellowship in His
sufferings, being conformed to His death that the life of Christ be manifested in your body? Have you suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish that you may gain Christ? Paul said he delighted in weakness, trials, sufferings, so that Christ would be strong in Him and thus be glorified. Paul took delight in all the things that would bring death to himself because he truly desire to glorify God.
Paul not only prayed this and openly spoke that God be glorified in him, but he also stirred himself to lay it all down,
truly showing that this boasting was not mere lip service but the true desire of his heart.
Now, let us meditate, do we really want Christ to be glorified?
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