Live for His Glory
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 23 July 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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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 Traylor.
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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. |
| 0:13.0 | 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. |
| 0:23.0 | We work created to live for our own advancement and attachment to advancement only breeds pain and suffering. |
| 0:30.0 | But if we choose instead to seek God's glory, to lift Him up and lead others to Him, we'll find life, purpose, peace, and joy. |
| 0:40.0 | May God give us courage to seek humility today in the wisdom to know how to glorify Him in meaningful ways. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to the first 15 podcasts. |
| 0:52.0 | One of the most consistent and critical struggles we as believers have is balancing our God-giving longings for greatness with striving for our own glory on earth. |
| 1:03.0 | You are made to long for greatness. You are made to do earth-shattering, bondage-breaking, life-giving works. |
| 1:12.0 | But the Bible makes it clear that when we overstep the boundary of greatness to glory, we step outside the abundant life God desires to give us. |
| 1:21.0 | When we long to achieve greatness for our own fame and reputation, we load onto our shoulder a weight only God can bear. |
| 1:30.0 | Living for your own glory will only lead you to a life of dissatisfaction, striving, burdens, and failure. |
| 1:37.0 | 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. |
| 1:46.0 | Our Savior, King, Jesus Christ. |
| 1:50.0 | Philippians 2.9-11 says, therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name. |
| 1:59.0 | So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. |
| 2:12.0 | Our Lord Jesus Christ is the exalted one. He alone is the one true King. All of creation is under His rule and authority. |
| 2:22.0 | God alone can bear the burden of glory. With glory comes great responsibility. Responsibility you and I will never be able to bear. |
| 2:32.0 | In Isaiah 42-8, God says, I am the Lord, that is my name, my glory I give to no other, nor my praise, de-carved idols. |
| 2:43.0 | Romans 1136 says, for from Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to Him be glory forever amen. |
| 2:52.0 | Jesus doesn't want glory because He's prideful or selfish. He is lifted up because He is the way to the Father. |
| 3:00.0 | He's not looking for control of our lives for selfish gain. He knows that when He takes up the throne of our hearts He can lead us into abundant life. |
| 3:10.0 | Through Jesus we have restored relationship with our Heavenly Father. Through Jesus our sins have been blotted out. |
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