To God Be The Glory

Meditations on Romans

September 14, 2021

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

Twice each day we take our Springer Spaniel, Hershey, for a walk in our neighborhood. Our first stop is an overlook above the French Broad River valley. Looking northeast, on a clear day we can see Mount Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Mississippi, in the distance. Each day is different, with different stages of fog low in the valley on many mornings revealing various peaks rising through the fog. Every day is ripe 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 of Paul’s proclamation in Romans 8:28-29. God is working ALL things together for good in my life, and the good is that I would be transformed to become like Christ. I owe God the allegiance of life because I belong to him. By creation and redemption, I belong to him; 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.

 

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