GLORIFY ONLY GOD

“If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things, God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen” I Peter: 4:11

Corrie Ten Boom was a dutch watch maker and Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi holocaust during World War II. Being a World War II concentration camp survivor, she became a popular speaker around the world. Thousands attended her meetings as she talked about how she had learned to forgive her captors just as Christ had forgiven her sins. According to her “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart”. After each meeting, people surrounded her and heaped accolades on her for her Godly qualities and thanked her for encouraging them in their walk with the Lord. Corrie said she would return to her room, get down on her knees and present those compliments in thanks to God. She called it giving God “A bouquet of praise”. In I Peter 4:10, Peter says that the Lord has given each one of us gifts to use to minister to one another so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom belong the Glory and the Dominion for ever and ever. All our abilities should be used in serving others and none are for our own exclusive enjoyment. We have nothing to offer others that we have not first received from the Lord, so the Glory belongs to Him only. Praising God and glorifying Him is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

“Dear Lord, when i receive a compliment for something I have said or done, let me privately give You a bouquet of praise which You alone deserve. Let me glorify You for the help and compliment I have received. In Jesus’ name I pray” – Amen.