To be fully HUMAN — A Daily Reflection

 

1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV

 

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

 

We’ve said it before – our one purpose in being here is to bring glory to God – in all ways – in everything that we do… Everything.

 

How many things do we do each day that we’d rather not talk to God about?  How many places do we go that we’d rather Jesus didn’t catch us there?  Why do we have the misimpression that if we don’t tell Him about it, He won’t notice?

 

Some years ago when I was a baby Christian, I asked a woman I knew how she dealt with this situation – doing everything to the glory of God.  She told me she tried always to keep a mental image of Jesus standing right next to her, watching and listening to everything she did.  She was already aware that He was there, and keeping this image helped to remind her.  If she did something she knew pleased Him, she would think about Him with a smile on His face.  If she did something she knew hurt Him, she would think about Him crying.  And it worked!  She found herself restraining her tongue more.  She found herself refraining from doing or saying anything that would offend Jesus.  Soon, there was a transformation – she began to automatically do things that would make Him smile.  But better yet, she began to want to do these things because they glorified Him.

 

Why?  She came to realize that the things she did that made Jesus smile were things that also glorified Him in her life.  Her actions and her words were a witness to the world of who Jesus was to her.  By doing and saying only those things that would make Him smile, she was glorifying His name.

 

Take the tenth step in learning to live by faith, and begin doing only those things that will glorify God – whatever you say or do or eat or drink or think, let it be to the glory of our Lord.