Are we really to glorify God in everything we do, what about me?

If we are to follow God does that really mean we have to go around glorifying Him all the Time? Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:31 “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.”  Then in Philippians 4:4-7 Paul tells us, “rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; ^ and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”  Notice Paul does not say when times are going good rejoice, but when times are not so good just don’t worry about rejoicing.  In all things we are to rejoice in Christ, we are to show  those around us that we serve a God who no matter what is happening we are going to glorify and rejoice in.  How do we do that, are we to go around with our hands in the air shouting and singing songs to God?  Are we to be constantly  putting post of Facebook about how great our God is?  I do not believe this is what Paul meant when he wrote this.

As we look the words that follow, “be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”   What Paul is saying is that when we go out we must not allow our own wants to get in the way of how we live for God.  We can easily live our lives thinking about all the things we desire, and trying to build ourselves up to others.  But God wants us to live for Him building Him up, showing others who He is and how when we have the Spirit of God living in us we can live with peace in our lives no matter what happens at work, or our personal life.   We are too busy trying to bring glory to ourselves  to let people know how great we are, but God stops  and says don’t worry about it I’ll take care of you just bring glory to me.  We spend a great deal of trying to get notice for the things we do, things that we do only because God has allowed us to.  As we read the bible, we begin to notice one thing.  That one thing is that the entire bible points to God, it glorifies God, through all the different people we read about, they are only a small part of the bible.  The main purpose of bible is to bring us to God, our creator.

We read about King David, one of the greatest Kings that Israel ever had.  God had blessed him greatly.  At one point in the life of David, David forgot that all he had was because God had given it to him.  He was to bring glory to God with all that God had done for him, but David decided to take census of the people to how great his kingdom was.  He forgot that it was not his kingdom but Gods kingdom.  We read in Chronicles 21 all about how David’s advisors told him not to sin against the Lord, but David did not listen to them.  His own pride got in the way.  Because of his forgetting to praise and rejoice in the Lord many people ended up dyeing.  You may say that seems a bit extreme, but when we begin to let our own pride, wants, desires to take over and forget that it is all about God, what is the cost?  How many people look and say if that is what the church is about then I don’t want to go there?  Let us live our lives not for our own glory but for the Glory of God.