To God Be The Glory

June 11, 2019

To God Be The Glory

For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen.

Romans 11:36

Read Romans 11:33-36

This month is our seventh anniversary of retiring to the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. For the last several days, Cheryl and I have been reminiscing about the so very many blessings that have poured into our lives here. On a recent morning, my faithful companion, Hershey, and I watched a turkey amble around our front year as I went to retrieve the morning paper. A few minutes later we were treated to a stunning mountain vista as we took Hershey for his morning walk. And then as we sat down for breakfast a hummingbird perched on his feeder outside our window.  Days like those were made for singing the Doxology, “Praise God from whom all blessing flow . . .” Indeed, everything comes from God and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. Paul’s closing verse to chapter eleven is very reminiscent of Paul’s extraordinary proclamation on the supremacy of Christ in Colossians 1:15-20.

Everything coming from God, existing by his power and intended for his glory is also reminiscent to me of Paul’s proclamation in Romans 8:28-29. God is working ALL things together for good in my life, and His good is that I would be transformed to become like Christ. I owe God the allegiance of my life because I belong to him by creation and redemption, I belong to him; thus I come from him and I am held together by his power, and I am intended to glorify him.

My Takeaway: How can I glorify God? When I cooperate with him as he works in me, giving me the desire and the power to do what pleases him, I glorify him. When I cooperate with him as he works all things together for the good of forming Christ within me, I glorify him. When I cooperate with the Master Potter, I glorify him!

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

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·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

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