Thursday, October 09, 2008

Offer it to God

How can we bring God and give God glory? How do we most put ourselves into a position to be able to do that? There are a few steps.
1. We must do what we do for His glory and not that of man. We need to do things, let them bring us joy and then in turn make sure that joy is from having served God. We need to avoid doing things to bring ourselves glory, and then say it's for God.
2. We must avoid things that promote the flesh. We need to do things that take the focus off of us and put it in turn on God.
3. We need to remember that no matter what we do, how we do it, God will not be impressed.
I had the priviledge of growing up in a time when there was not much sports on T.V. yes, we had ESPN but only one of them, and the majority of the time it had to divide up what was on. For the most part you could watch Atlanta teams play because TBS at that time was owned by Ted Turner, or you could watch Chicago teams play because that is where WGN was stationed. So, I grew up loving the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Bulls. I could not get into the Cubs or the Hawks as it were.
I got to see Michael Jordan in his prime, when he would step onto the court and seemingly defy gravity. Every single game there was atleast one or two plays that the announcers would play over and over wondering how in the world he was able to do it. How did he hang that high in the air, how did he beat 5 defenders, how did he dunk from that far out, how did he jump over guys a half a foot taller than him, or how did he score over 60 points by himself. These questions came up every single game and I loved it. But it leads me to this point, God was not impressed in any way. THink about it, the very God who gave Michael Jordan all of his power, speed and ability did the same for you and nothing you ever do will impress Him.
Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.
So we offer our bodies, our actions and most importantly our abilities to God as instruments of righteousness and we offer them to God. Not to man, and not to ourselves but to God. So the best thing we can do is stop trying to impress other humans, or even God because He cannot and will not be impressed. WIth that perspective in mind we should do everything we do by offering it first to God, and then if it brings any positive energy or glory make sure all of it is aimed skyward to God as well.
Have a great day and thanks for reading!

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