April 29

The Main Point of Life

Some truths from our reading today:

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!
The heavens declare the glory of God.
Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength; we will sing and praise your might.
Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.

We live in an unbelievably naive and superficial age, even though most people would vehemently argue with my assessment. A.W. Tozer, one of my favorite authors described it this way. Something is superficial when the treatment of it involves everything except the main things. As a scholar you can say much intelligently about a great many things. Yet if you leave out the main connections, you're treating them superficially.

When you apply this to the media, education, history books, communication, editorial pages and politics you end up with a vast wasteland of superficial institutions that have missed the main point of life.

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 anything subject with 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 simply an after thought in most people’s minds.

But if we view that everything in life needs to point to his glory and honoring his name, then our very existence is drastically changed by this reality.

On Thursday we studied this concept about glorifying God. The kids in GYRO (our elementary school youth program) think that History, Math, Spelling and English are boring. That can be true if you treat them superficially and neglect God. But if you view “Spelling” as a way to bring glory to God then “Spelling” becomes an act of worship.

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. And when we do that, we make every action in life eternally significant.