Your Glory-Part 2
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is by Tim Keller (the first paragraph) and Andy Stanley (the second and third paragraph), and the Scripture is Jeremiah 9:23-24 This is what the Lord says: "Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the Lord.
How do you decide whether a watch is a good or a bad watch? You have to know what it was designed for. For example, it's terrible at hammering nails – so don't try. But if it's terrible at hammering nails, that's okay because it's very good at telling me the time. Therefore, until I know what it is built and designed for, it is impossible to even talk about whether it's a good or a bad watch."
Your glory is not a big enough prize to devote your life to. Begin factoring into your decisions and your life what would be most honoring to God? You owe it to yourself to ask the question because it is the purpose for which you have been made, and you know this intuitively. You're going to live for somebody's glory, and God has invited you to live for His. Ask what would be most honoring to Him.
When you cross the line and start living for God's glory and not your own, something inside of you is going to light up. There's going to be a freedom that you've never experienced before, and you will step into the purpose for which you were made-to be a reflection of your Creator's glory.
Man's chief in is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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