Denny answers:
You can glorify God by loving and obeying Him above all else.
God created all things, so all things belong to Him and are made to glorify Him. Glorify means to give praise, love, obedience, and honor to someone. God is the greatest! He deserves all glory, praise and honor!
Jesus told us God’s greatest command for us to obey: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37b). Loving God involves putting Him first—before yourself, family, friends, toys, anything—and obeying His commands found in the Bible (Luke 14:26; 1 John 5:3).
But we were each born sinners (Romans 5:12). We sin every day by not loving God with all our hearts and not obeying His commands (such as honoring our parents or not lying).
We have fallen short of God’s glory and deserve to be separated from God. But God made a way to save sinners: “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:23-24).
God sent His Son Jesus to die on the cross to take the punishment for sin. When God gives a sinner a new heart, that sinner turns from sin and trusts Jesus. As a free gift, God pardons the sinner and sees Christ’s perfect goodness instead of our sin. God declares the believer righteous.
If God is working in your heart, turn from your sin and place your faith in Jesus’ work on the cross. With a new heart, you can truly glorify God!
Bible Truth
- “All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord; they will bring glory to your name. For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God. Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever” (Psalm 86:9-12).
- Jesus said: “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began” (John 17:1b-5).
- “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20, ESV).
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