Glorify God!

October 16, 2022

Saint Paul tells the Corinthian church, its individual members, “For ye are

bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit,

which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:20). Like the church today (it was and

is in the world) but that is not the problem (there are too many of the

world’s opinions in the church). We forget, “and such were some of you:

but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of

the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:11). So, we

have this grand reason to glorify God and praise Him because of this grace

that He has bestowed upon the most unworthy, us. It is true that all things

are not expedient and so the gift of discernment (wisdom), through prayer

and study of the Word, makes clear to each of us what we can and cannot

do at any certain time. Therefore, we cannot claim ignorance because the

will of our Lord is written in our heart, inscribed in our brain, and directs

our body to ‘Glorify God’. The fact that we have been bought with his

blood makes us his own possession and so we are obliged to honor his will

and not our own wishes. It is his will which declares that in order to prove

our love for him, we must be devoted to one another, united and not

condemning one toward another. Remembering that at one time we were

extortioners, revilers, drunkards, covetous, homosexuals, and fornicators -

either actually or spiritually – pushes us not be anything other than

humble. Glorify not self but glorify God, allowing him the final

judgement. It may help to remember “He who is without sin should cast

the first stone” and the fact that Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn thee”.

We can glorify God through personal repentance and harmony in the

fellowship. Thinking that it should begin with my brother taking the

initiative probably will not work. Perhaps if it is to be… it must begin with

me!

Dr. Kenneth E. Morrison