Live For His Glory
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 22 July 2022
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Summary
In the final devotional in our series on experiencing God’s promises, today we’re going to look at what it means to live for God’s glory. There is a wealth of promises that can only be experienced when we choose to lay down our own glory, and live for the glory of God instead. We weren’t created to live for our own advancement, and attachment to advancement only breeds pain and suffering. But if we’ll choose instead to seek God’s glory, to lift him up and lead others to him, we’ll find life, purpose, peace, and joy.
Our Scripture for today comes from Romans 11:36, and today's worship is You Get The Glory by Jonathan Taylor.
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| 0:00.0 | In the final episode of our series on experiencing God's promises, today we're going to look at what it means to live for God's glory. |
| 0:14.0 | There are a wealth of promises that can only be experienced when we choose to lay down our own glory and live for the glory of God instead. |
| 0:24.0 | We weren't created to live for our own advancement and attachment to advancement only breeds pain and suffering. |
| 0:32.0 | But if we'll choose instead to seek God's glory, to lift Him up and lead others to Him, we'll find life, purpose, peace and joy. |
| 0:42.0 | May God give us the courage to seek humility today and the wisdom to know how to glorify Him in meaningful ways. |
| 0:51.0 | Welcome to the first-of-team podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | Our scripture for today comes from Romans 11, verse 36, or Paul writes, |
| 1:11.0 | for from Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to Him be glory forever. Amen. |
| 1:21.0 | One of the most constant and critical struggles we as believers have is balancing our God-given longing for greatness, with striving for our own glory on earth. |
| 1:34.0 | You were made to long for greatness. You were made to do earth-shattering, bondage-breaking, life-giving works. |
| 1:43.0 | But the Bible makes it clear that when we overstep the boundary of greatness to glory, we step outside of the abundant life that God desires to give us. |
| 1:56.0 | When we long to achieve greatness for our own fame and reputation, we load onto our shoulders a weight that only God can bear. |
| 2:06.0 | Living for your own glory will only lead you to a life of dissatisfaction, striving, burdens and failure. |
| 2:17.0 | So let's take some time today and cast the burden of achieving glory back onto the only person who deserves it and can bear it. |
| 2:26.0 | Our Savior, King Jesus Christ. |
| 2:31.0 | Philippians 2 9-11 says, |
| 2:34.0 | Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, in every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. |
| 2:54.0 | Our Lord Jesus Christ is the exalted one. He alone is the one true King. |
| 3:01.0 | All of creation is under His rule and authority. God alone can bear the burden of glory, because with glory comes great responsibility. |
| 3:13.0 | Responsibility that you and I will never be able to bear. |
| 3:19.0 | Isaiah 42-8, God says, |
| 3:22.0 | I am the Lord, that is my name. |
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