66-DAY JOURNEY OF THE BIBLE
Day 65 - Jude (To God be the Glory!)
“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.” (Jude 24-25)
There is a Christian real estate tycoon in the Philippines who owns multiple buildings and on top of each one is written these words: “To God be the Glory!” At the time that I was living in the Philippines, I did not fully understand the full meaning of that phrase. But praise God, I believe that I have a much better understanding of it now.
God says in Isaiah 42:8, “I am the Lord, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images.” Jude, another half-brother of the Lord Jesus who simply referred to himself as the brother of James, reiterates the truth that God alone deserves all glory.
I believe that in order to comprehend the reason why God will not share His glory with another, we need to understand the nature of God and the proper place of man which God has appointed for him. God is not a jealous God in the wrong sense of the word. The fact that there is only one God, there can be no other being that can receive the glory that is due to God alone.
Whenever I am able to produce any fruit from my labor for God such as someone being touched through a sermon that I have delivered or a blog I have written, it will be wrong and sinful of me to claim credit or glory for it. Why? Because it was the Holy Spirit who used the words I spoke or wrote and breathed life into it and also brought conviction to the heart of the person who was touched by it. This is the meaning of “to God be the glory!” God alone deserved all the credit and praise for what He accomplished in my life for without Him I can do nothing.
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