{"id":10029,"date":"2024-03-30T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=10029"},"modified":"2024-03-08T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T14:10:12","slug":"10029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/10029\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Eat-Drink-Instagram-Post-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Eat-Drink-Instagram-Post-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Eat-Drink-Instagram-Post-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Eat-Drink-Instagram-Post-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Eat-Drink-Instagram-Post-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Eat-Drink-Instagram-Post-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Eat-Drink-Instagram-Post.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">\u201cSo, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">1 Cor. 10:31<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God\u2019s glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all things, glorify God. Whether fasting and praying, working hard at your job, or raising kids, ultimately, we do it for the Lord. Keeping the Creator in our lens gives us a broader perspective. If we think about taking a panoramic picture on our phone, we capture much more of our surroundings than a standard photo. Holding the camera upright, the image narrows, and peripheral objects get left out. The same happens when we only view life from our perspective, not considering the larger picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lord has a panoramic view of life from beginning to end. He knows how our actions fit into His eternal story. Corrie Ten Boom, a holocaust survivor, had no idea from her limited perspective how God would use her story. When she studied the Bible in her bare cell with other prisoners, she couldn\u2019t have known her actions would inspire millions. Becoming a public speaker after the Lord freed her, she didn\u2019t know the prison guard where her sister died would attend one of her events in Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cIt was 1947 and I had come from Holland to defeated Germany with the message that God forgives.\u201d Corrie Ten Boom<a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extending his hand, the balding prison guard, now a Christ follower, asked Corrie for forgiveness. After speaking on forgiveness, how could she not give Him what the Lord freely gave her? Glorifying God, she forgave Him. Her place in eternity\u2019s story cemented with one act of obedience that continues to inspire and motivate others decades later. Corrie couldn\u2019t see the whole picture then, but she knew that she must glorify her Creator in all things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, as we finish our 40-day study of fasting and prayer, we do so with one thought in mind: glorify God in all things. Aligning our heart posture with the Lord\u2019s will help us honor and serve Him well. Each morning, as I close my quiet time with God and complete my journal entry, I pray for God\u2019s help to honor and serve Him. Without my Maker\u2019s guidance, I can\u2019t do anything. But the impossible becomes possible when I align my heart with His, asking for God\u2019s assistance. Life takes on new meaning and purpose, and the Lord gets glory in all things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Make glorifying God your life goal. When faced with life decisions, ask the Lord for His perspective. Seeing people through the Creator\u2019s lens will help you love them better. Wanting to glorify God over man will cause you to make different choices. When we live for the applause of One, our worldview changes. No longer will the things of this world influence us when we put God above all things. Under the Lord\u2019s influence, we will find abundant life, live with the peace that surpasses all understanding, and experience eternal joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Journal Questions:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How can I apply today\u2019s devotion to my life?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How can you glorify God today?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How does knowing you have a place in God\u2019s eternal story motivate you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Prayer:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord, as we close out this 40-day devotional, I ask for Your blessing on all that read it. Give them eyes to see and hears to hear You.\u00a0 Inspire their lives with divine vision. Fill their hearts with purpose, giving them discernment and direction as they pursue You.\u00a0 Let blessing and favor shower down on them from above, Your guiding light illuminating the world around them. Change and mold us so that we become more like Christ. And in all things, You receive the glory. IJNIP. Amen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> https:\/\/guideposts.org\/positive-living\/guideposts-classics-corrie-ten-boom-forgiveness\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-minute read. \u201cSo, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.\u201d 1 Cor. 10:31 God\u2019s glory. In all things, glorify God. Whether fasting and praying, working hard at your job, or raising kids, ultimately, we do it for the Lord. Keeping the Creator in our lens gives&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/10029\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God&#8217;s Glory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10032,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions\/10032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}