The concept of glorifying God has been on my heart this past week. I think it was last week when it really hit me what glorifying God is. It's one of those phrases that is tossed around "Glory be to God"....but WHY. Why should we glorify Him? Doesn't that seem a bit selfish that God made us for Him? That we shouldn't glorify anything BUT Him? I think this is where the flawed view of God comes into play if we are thinking this way. Because as I learned last week:
"When God gets his glory. We get our joy."
It was like boom! "oooh God is good and love and all of those things so by glorifying Him, in return, we are made happy!" It is not selfish of Him at all if WE are the ones reaping the benefits of glorifying him. I think there is the misconception that God is some like evil tax keeper and when we glorify him we are giving him all our money and he just keeps it all in a bank and leaves us miserable. In reality though, when we praise God and honor him with our hearts and actions, He blesses us like 100x more than we could imagine. (proven many times in my own life). Bottom line: it is easy to forget that God is literally the image of everything that is good in the universe. He IS love. so only good can come out of glorifying something of that nature.
The other misconception that I struggle with as I'm sure many others do is imagining God to be this rule keeper. That he RESTRICTS us. That he PREVENTS us from living fun-filled, wild, adventurous, risky lives. God completely spoke to me in my moment of thinking this. "He gives us the FREEDOM to live fun-filled, wild, adventurous, and risky lives!" Because of Him, we have the roadmap for how to live this life to the fullest. (He knows because He created it.) Our lives can be filled with those crazy traits, but with God, they will have purpose behind them. Taking big risks and trusting God will provide. Traveling the world and seeing His creation. Fun-filled adventures with genuine friends. I guess what i'm getting at is things don't have to be sinful to be fun.
"I run in the path of your commands for you have set my heart free." -Psalm 119:32
"Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free." -John 8:32
"You my brothers were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature, rather, serve one another in love." -Galatians 5:13
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." -Galatians 5:22-23
xoxo Katie
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