Help Wanted vs Help Needed

Some Thoughts for Consideration

Larry R Evans

"Fear God and give him glory . . . " -- Revelation 14:7

How do we give glory to God? Do we do it by being obedient? By helping others? By giving our tithes and offerings? Perhaps but not by doing these things directly. Consider the following:

"'The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him' (2 Chronicles 16:9). God is not looking for people to work for Him, so much as He is looking for people who will let Him work for them. The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. Neither is the call to Christian service. On the contrary, the gospel commands us to give up and hang out a help-wanted sign (this is the basic meaning of prayer.). Then the gospel promises that God will work for us if we do. He will not surrender the glory of being the Giver.
But is there not anything we can give Him that won't belittle Him to the status of beneficiary? Yes--our anxieties. It's a command: '[Cast] all your anxieties on him' (1 Peter 5:7). God will gladly receive anything from us that shows our dependence and His all-sufficiency." (John Piper, Desiring God, p. 171)

So how do we glorify God? Do we do it by being obedient? By eating the right things? By helping others and returning our tithes? Is that what brings glory to God? Perhaps, but only indirectly. God is glorified by living His life through us, by filling our emptiness with His fullness, by healing our brokenheartedness with His righteousness. God is glorified, then, when we allow Him to serve and minister to us and when that happens what we do comes from a response of love and gratitude. We are blessed and God is glorified! At that moment our peace with God, with ourselves and with one another is beyond human understanding.

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