Do Everything For The Glory of God

1 Corinthians 10:31
[31]So whether you eat, or drink, or do something else, do everything for the glory of God.

Theme: Do everything for the glory of God.

1) I must do everything for the glory of God (Part 1).

We can analyze and meditate on this theme all our lives because it is the very reason for our existence on earth. I am on earth to glorify God. God created us to glorify him and all the redeemed must give more glory to God by their lives. The big question is how to glorify God? The answer is simple, by making sure that everything I do brings glory to Him. My way of speaking gives him glory, my way of dressing gives him glory, my way of eating gives him glory, my way of working gives him glory, my behavior gives him glory, my projects give him glory, my wealth gives him glory. God honors those who honor him. If we do everything for the glory of God, there is nothing that will stop that glory from manifesting. We are the glory of God, his subject of rejoicing. God rejoices to have children who honor him in all things. Doing everything for the glory of God silences all our accusers and enemies. Doing everything for the glory of God preserves our soul from many anguish. Because I know it is God I want to honor in all that I do, whether the task is big or small, whether it is paid or unpaid, whether men see me or whether it is in secret, I determine myself to give of my best to God.

Recommendations : Examine yourself, does everything you do glorify God?

Prayer: Lord, may I glorify you in all that I do, say and think in the name of Jesus Christ Amen?

2) I must do everything for the glory of God (2nd part)

let’s take the aspect of food, eating for the glory of God. It sounds funny to put food in faith, but we need to understand that God is interested in all aspects of our lives. When we eat and throw the leftovers in the trash while our neighbors are hungry does that glorify God? When we eat so greedily that our stomach hurts, does that glorify God? When during ceremonies we jostle over food and load our dishes as if we haven’t eaten anything for ten years, without considering who will serve after us, does that glorify God? When we are aware of the balanced diet that we must respect but we choose to eat simply for pleasure at the risk of falling ill from the abuse of meat, fat, alcohol, etc., does this glorify God? God cares about what we eat and what we should eat. I know some will say that “it is not what goes into a man that defiles him” as Jesus said but we still have to be careful of our interpretation out of context. Eat as much food and beer as you want, when you can’t control yourself because the alcohol has taken over, you’re not defile are you? Eating can also be taken figuratively speaking of all the things that we bring into our hearts and into our bodies. All the obscenities that we swallow on TV or social media, all the filth that is offered to us all day long and that we internalize does it glorify God? Watch over what you eat both physically and spiritually. Doing everything for the glory of God therefore includes eating in a way that honors God.

Recommendation of the Day: Watch what goes inside of you.

Prayer: Lord grant me the grace to eat in such a way as to glorify you. Amen?

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3) I must do everything for the glory of God (3rd part).

We want to focus our attention on the quality of our service. Does my service give glory to God? When we speak of service we refer to any activity, whether in the office or at home, whether directed to others or centered on ourselves, whether voluntary or paid. Does what we do bring glory to God? Our perception of who we serve has a very strong influence on how we serve and even on the quality of our service. Very often we limit ourselves to thinking that we only serve men and this causes us to act negligently. We are diligent when our human boss is in the office, but when he is away we can spend the day at the game on our computer or be on our smartphone. When we do something that is our own we devote ourselves but when it is the thing of others we take it lightly. We must be aware that all service is first rendered to God before being rendered to men. God’s work is not just what we do in church. The servant of God is not only the one who goes to the pulpit on Sunday to preach. We are all servants of God and missionaries in our different corridors of activity. I serve God at the wheel of my taxi and on the handlebars of my motorbike, so my way of leading people and speaking to them must demonstrate the holiness of God. I serve God on my counter in the market so my way of treating my customers must be one of kindness and integrity. I serve God as a househelp so my way of keeping the house and managing the property of others must be with sincerity and faithfulness. In no aspect of my service should I be negligent, I should devote myself and give the best of myself. A child of God seeks excellence in everything whether the thing he does is small or big, he puts his full attention into it and it is only in this way that he can give glory to God. Personally, I have never considered myself an employee of a man, I am God’s employee in this church, in this office and it is to him that I will report. I care more about what God thinks of my service than what my earthly leaders will say. I know my God is a perfect and excellent God so I judge my service by the mind of my God. Beloved your service must give glory to God. Ask yourself the question: if what You do, God were to give you a mark would he be satisfied. If what I do, God was in front of me, would I do it this way. If I prepared for God would I do so?

Recommendation: All service is first rendered to God so be careful how you serve.

Prayer: Lord grant me the grace to glorify you in my service and offer you excellent service.

4) I must do everything for the glory of God (4th part) .

Let us talk about the use of our tongue for the glory of God. If we must do everything for the glory of God, we must also speak for the glory of God. The Bible forbids us to use our mouth anyhow. From our mouth must not come bad words, insults, slander, unhealthy and false jokes. When you lie to someone and then tell him you were joking or it was an April Fool’s joke does that change the fact that you lied? Our mouth too is consecrated to God and must only speak the truth, it is the truth that glorifies God. For our mouth to glorify God it should not spend its time saying how the president is bad, how the country is not doing well, how such and such a person has hurt us, but focus on giving thanks. The country is not doing well, it is true, but so far the Lord has helped us. Let’s leave the language of complaint behind and focus on thanksgiving. We may not have everything we dreamed of, but it does not glorify God to spend time insulting the authorities. we must not be supporters of inaction, we must be agents of change, but that does not necessarily involve negative criticism and insulting the power in place. This goes through prayer and concrete actions (this is not the theme of our meditation). We are talking about using our mouths for the glory of God. Our mouth must always bless and not curse, the words of our mouths must edify and communicate grace to those who hear it as the Word of God tells us. Our words must bring life and not death. Sometimes our mouth is used to utter obscene and lewd words. We perform songs that don’t glorify God. I know that the debate on the question of music that glorifies God (Christian music Vs worldly music) is not over yet in the Christian environment but what I am simply saying is what is the source of what I sing? Does what I sing honor God or celebrate sex, money, worldly glory and vanity? Let’s pay attention to our mouth. All our members must be at the service of God and our mouth too. Let’s turn our tongues 7 times before speaking to be sure that what we say edifies and gives glory to God.

Recommendations : watch over your mouth.

Prayer : Eternal Father, let my mouth glorify you in everything in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.?

Violent hands are hands that hurt others. Does using our hand to threaten, to punch, to slap, glorify God? For our hands to glorify God, they must not be instruments of violence, they must not be used to cause harm to others. Thieving hands are also violent hands. To steal is to do violence to someone in what belongs to him. When someone’s thing is stolen, he feels bad in his heart, it’s as if his heart had been kicked. We must avoid making people suffer consciously or unconsciously by our hands. Our hands must be filled with love to glorify God. One of the acts of theft that workers very often commit without knowing it is to bring the pen home from the office or to use professional resources for personal purposes without prior authorization. It sounds trivial but it does not glorify God. We must act with justice. Are you sure that if your employee used the service car to transport his products from the field and do whatever pleases him without your permission as a boss, you will be satisfied with him? Don’t do to others what you don’t like to be done to you. Don’t take someone else’s thing by force. Do not touch anything impure, do not participate in questionable activities, do not use your hands in games of chance.

God challenges us this morning regarding the use of our hands. My hand should glorify God and not cause harm to others. What you do with your hand in secret if it was brought to light would men applaud you? Would God be glorified? You use your hands to trick, you use your hands to kill. Our hands should celebrate the Lord, our hands should cheer God, our hands should bless the people around us, our hands should give encouragement pats on the shoulder, our hands should support the weak, our hands should serve, our hands must be generous to give, our hands must be active and industrious. Only then can we say that our hands glorify God.

Recommendations: Make sure that your hand does not cause harm to your neighbor but rather is an instrument of blessing.

Prayer: Father use my hands. I dedicate them to your service.

My thoughts should glorify God.

Maybe we should have started here because as a proverb says “as a man thinks so he is”. If our thoughts are dark and filthy, it will be difficult for us to live to glorify God. Most of our actions start in the head. Jesus Christ said that if a man looks at a woman to lust after her, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart. When our heart meditates on something, it becomes difficult not to apply it if the conditions are favorable to us. There are plenty of people who don’t steal just because the opportunity never presented itself. When sin is in our thoughts, when we pass the time admiring and coveting other people’s boys, girls, husbands or wives, other people’s things, one day we will do everything to appropriate it even if you have to steal. Fornication and adultery are forms of theft because you take what is not yours and use it.

Apostle Paul encourages us in Philippians 1:8 to have thoughts that glorify God. He says this: Besides, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever merits approval, whatever who is virtuous and worthy of praise, be the object of your thoughts. For my thoughts to glorify God, I must apply myself to keep them pure. I must not meditate evil in my heart towards my neighbor. Nor should I spend time brooding over the harm done to me and ripening resentment, I should rid myself of any thought contrary to the holiness of God. In our country Cameroon today there are tribalist and sectarian thoughts, there are resentful thoughts. But God wants us to be filled with love.
The thoughts that glorify the Lord are those that are pure, peaceful, loving. Thoughts of progress and well-being for others.

Recommendation : Let your thoughts glorify God.

Prayer: Lord help me to always have thoughts that glorify you in the name of Jesus Christ Amen..

Feet that glorify God!

How to use my feet for the glory of God is the big question. The Bible tells us that there are six or seven things that the Lord hates and among them are ” Feet hastening to run to evil,” Proverbs 6:18. It is our feet that lead us to places of slander and ridicule. It’s my feet that lead me to where we drink and get drunk. I also use my feet for the fight. It is with my feet that I enter someone else’s house to steal. The feet that run to evil are the feet that end up where they aren’t supposed to be, doing what they aren’t supposed. I can decide with my feet not to go places that won’t glorify my God . What are a Christian’s feet doing in a nightclub? What are the feet of a Christian doing at the marabout house, what does a Christian do standing or sitting among people who get drunk or insult or slander, even if you say nothing. It’s also my feet that lead me in my various frequentations, don’t we say “Tell me who you walk with and I’ll tell you who you are”? Isn’t it said that “Bad company corrupts good morals”?

My feet should glorify God by keeping my body away from anything that does not honor the Lord. My feet should glorify the Lord by enabling me to walk in the paths of righteousness and truth. My feet must glorify God dancing for the King of kings. My feet must glorify God by always leading me close to those who invoke the Lord with a pure heart (my feet must not stay at home when there is a gathering of the redeemed because faith is lived in community and not alone). My feet have to visit and especially go to the house of those who are unable to give us anything. My feet must run to the aid of the needy. My feet also have to exercise in sport because it is useful (even if it is very little). God wants me to be healthy so sport gives him glory.

Recommendations: Beloved, choose to glorify God with your feet

Prayer: Lord help my feet not to lead me into places you will not be honored with.

My eyes for the glory of God.

The eyes play a very big role in our worship to the Lord. Let us remember that to worship God or glorify God is doing what honors Him, what makes him happy. Our eyes can either be at the service of the Lord or at the service of sin.

The eyes at the service of sin are haughty and arrogant. These eyes despise others, look at others like low class, less than nothing and waste. These eyes do not value his neighbor and has respect only for those who belong to the same social class as them, in fact it’s not even respect but a game of interest because the day these people will lose their power or money, the look at them will change.

The eyes at the service of sin covet. They envy things that do not belong them and are ready to do anything to be satisfied with this thing. They look at the things that are above their means and sometimes are not even indispensable but they have a desire to possess things and these things end up possessing them. They covet the husband or wife of others, the goods of others, the positions of others.

The eyes at the service of sin engage in seduction. More and more I see our sisters with false eyelashes that makes them look like prostitutes. The use of these beauty devices that for my part is more like the prostitutes is demonic. Today we see the seductive eyes with or without false eyelashes everywhere in the church. The seductive eyes are visible even sometimes in the way we take our photos and post on social media. What is the goal? Is it so that men should run after you, are you looking for partner for sin? Our eyes should not leave anything incorrect in passing.
The eyes of anger do not glorify God. There are people who are all the time angry, they always have a gaze of weakedness. Their look always pushed people away from them. They are angry against everyone, against their parents, against the society, they are even angry against God. Their anger is manifest by a difficult look, it’s as if they want to revenge because of something. A Christian should not maintain anger. I’m not saying that a Christian can not get angry but to be noticed as someone who is always angry does not glorify God.

The eyes at the service of sin watch what they are not supposed to look. The eyes of a Christian do what in front of pornography? Today the images we are scaling all day long are impudic images of naked women, people kissing. People want to see sexuality at any cost until when you do a wedding service, above everything people are waiting for the kiss. The eyes of a Christian are too pure to make evil.

We will continue with the eyes that glorify God Monday by God’s grace.

Recommendation: watch over your eyes.

Prayer : Lord help me to have eyes that glorify you.

The eyes which glorify the Lord are above all eyes of purity, eyes which in no way want to be associated with what is evil. We can say that it is the complete opposite of what we saw in the first part. These eyes have consideration for every person, rich or poor. They value every human being as a creation of God and every Christian as Christ himself and as carrying Christ within him.

Eyes that glorify the Lord are eyes of compassion. They watch with love and pity. They care about the condition of others. They are not self-centered and egocentric but are other-oriented. They want to see others pick themselves up and progress. Eyes that glorify the Lord do not envy but admire and appreciate the success of others.

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Eyes that glorify the Lord blaze with anger at sin. They do not close themselves off to ignore or condone sin. They are inflamed with anger to denounce sin in all its forms in our own lives and in the lives of others. They don’t see sin and say it’s nothing.
Eyes that glorify the Lord express hope and joy. Our gaze should not be that of downcast and desperate people, people who have lost everything in life and do not even know where they are going. The Bible says that when we approach the Lord we have a radiant face. Even in situations of crisis and sadness, I do not cry like a person without hope. When I cry (because I’m human), I keep hope in my heart because my God does everything for a purpose. I may feel pain because I don’t always understand but I know my redeemer lives.
The eyes that glorify the Lord are constantly immersed in the Word of God. He who will have gazed into the perfect law, the law of freedom and who will have persevered without being a forgetful listener but putting himself to work, he will be happy in all his activity. James 1:25. These eyes read the word of God out of love and not out of constraint. These eyes look at teachings on social media, these eyes are drawn to what is beautiful to the glory of God. These eyes like to see the presence of people who share the same love for the Lord.

The eyes that glorify the Lord are fixed on Christ and not on the things of this world. When we look to Christ we easily achieve God’s purposes for our life. But when our eyes are not on Christ, we will be confused by this world.

Recommendation : Have the gaze of Christ, it is a gaze of holiness, love, compassion and mercy.

Prayer: Lord I would like to see like Jesus. Amen