Some truths from our reading today:
How majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens. From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise.
How majestic is your name in all the earth!
We live in an unbelievably naive and superficial age, even though most people would vehemently argue with my assessment. A.W. Tozer, described it this way, something is superficial when the treatment of it involves everything except the main thing. As a scholar you can say much intelligently about a great many things. Yet if you leave out the main connection, you're treating the subject superficially.
When you apply this to the media, education, history, communication, editorial pages and politics you end up with a vast wasteland of superficial conversations that have missed the main point.
God is the ultimate reality of the universe and if we don't pay attention to His glory we have missed the main thing in life. There is no other reality in life more important than God. Therefore, any time we treat any subject without relating it to God, we are being superficial. This sounds odd to most people because God has been so neglected, so belittled, that He is viewed as irrelevant and immaterial to how we live our lives. But if we view that everything in life needs to point to His glory and honoring His name, then our God denying culture is actually irrelevant and immaterial.
I once taught our GYRO kids about this concept of living for the glory of God. I asked them what they thought about their school subjects like history, math, spelling and English. They told me these subjects are boring. I felt the same way when I was in school. But I challenged them, what if we could make every subject exciting? They asked how. I said if you view "spelling" as a way to bring glory to God then "spelling" becomes a way you enjoy God and honor Him.
The main thing in all of life is to bring glory to God, to honor His name and make it great. We need to do that in every aspect of our daily life. So whether it is "spelling," working, reading, driving, gardening, exercising, no matter what it is, bring glory to God through it. And when we do that, we make every action in life eternally significant.
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