God must take the Glory

We all owe it a duty to always glorify the Lord for whatever that happens to us because God is both our protector and the giver of all the things we have. God created the heaven and the earth, and everything on the earth, including the human beings that live on the earth. There is no being that is as powerful as God or has the power to create anything. It must be noted that the honour of bringing everything into existence belongs to God, the Almighty. With mere words, God brought the earth into existence and also all the things in it. This honour must go to Him at all times. Another way man can glorify God is to admire His wonderful works. Isaiah 60:21-22 says: “Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. 22: A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.”

The foundation of all the good things needed for the progress of man was laid at the creation of the earth. Man only works to derive his livelihood from the things that God had already put in place. So, whatever riches, wisdom, knowledge, among other things that man has acquired over a period of time came from the provisions that God had already made. In the lead scripture above God delights in man glorifying Him. Let the wise never think it is by his power or the rich think that his wealth came from his hard work and strength, rather let all glory go to God for all that we have.

Our Lord Jesus Christ came to the earth to direct man on how to serve and glorify God. He is coming again in His glory for stocktaking of our lives. Isaiah 61:1-3 says: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. 2: To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn. 3: To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.”

Our Lord Jesus Christ has come to set the captives of the Devil free and to comfort the people that are mourning. All these are in preparation of the saints for the eternal life in heaven and for all these we must give glory to God at all times. It should be noted that the Lord Jesus Christ suspended the reading of this passage in the Synagogue at Nazareth (Luke 4:16-21) with the words: “Year of the Lord.”

The first Advent of the Lord, therefore, opened the Day of Grace, “the acceptable Year of the Lord,” but does not fulfill the “Day of Vengeance” that will be accomplished when the Messiah returns with the saints in His glory (2 Thessalonians 1:7-10, Isaiah 34:8, 35:4). The “Year of the Lord” is different from “the Acceptable Year of the Lord.” The Acceptable Year of the Lord covers the “Days of Grace” following His first Advent. It also includes, but not exclusive to the Year of Jubilee, when sins are forgiven, slaves are freed and people eat only from the fruits of the plants that grow on their own, as there are no farming or planting in that year. While the Year of the Lord refers to the Day of Vengeance, which comes in His Second Advent when Christ returns in His glory to sit on the throne of David for the judgment of sinners. That day will be a day of crying for some people and also, a day of rejoicing for the people who have lived their lives to glorify God. This is the time for you to glory in the understanding that you know God, and that you are living according to His will. The implementation of this understanding will make you to rejoice that you will reign with the Lord hereafter.

1Peter 2:9-10 says: “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. 10: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”

God has chosen and shown us mercy by giving us His only son to die for our sins. With this, God has shown us His unmerited favour and we are to reciprocate it by glorifying Him with our lives and the things we do. It is a thing every human being should do because human beings were created to glorify Him. We should, therefore, offer wholehearted service to God by preaching the gospel at all times, as a way of depopulating the kingdom of darkness and increasing the number of people going to heaven. 1Corinthians 10:31-33 says: “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 32: Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God. 33: Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many that they may be saved.”

All honour and glory must be given to the Almighty God who created all of us, including heaven and the earth. Whosoever honours and glorifies God must have given his or her life to Jesus Christ and to the service of God. It is by so doing that we can reign with Jesus Christ in His kingdom.