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Teaching Tools How Do We Glorify God? In last month’s message, we learned that the word glory means to express, manifest, show forth, reveal, make clear or unmask one’s true self, in such a way that a person’s character or nature is clearly seen in the deed or work done. God created human beings in His own image. So, we glorify God when we clearly reflect the character and nature of God by being godlike; that is, we glorify God when we manifest God’s character and nature through godly thoughts, words and deeds. As we grow spiritually, we glorify God by becoming an earthly image of the way our heavenly Father thinks, speaks and acts. Can we know how God thinks, speaks and acts? Yes, because He has revealed His nature through the words of the Bible and through the Person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who is true God and true Man. Therefore, we need to search the Holy Scriptures to gain a clear picture of what it means to think, speak and act like God. Jesus deliberately lived His life in a way that would show forth and reveal God, even expressing His desire to glorify God while aware of His impending suffering and death: “Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name!” Because Jesus is fully God, He gives us a clear picture of how God thinks, speaks and acts. And because Jesus is fully human, He gives us a clear picture of how we are to live our lives in a way that glorifies God in our thoughts, words and deeds. Jesus thought, spoke and acted like God; now He wants us to do so too.
Let’s look at a few Scriptures about glorifying God in thoughts, words, and deeds: Thoughts: “Who can know what the Lord is thinking?
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Glory Ministries is dedicated to the glory of God, because God wants to reveal Himself in and through people who honor Him by personally becoming ever-clearer reflections of God. And He wants people to develop godlike character, so each of us individually and collectively can glorify God through our thoughts, words and deeds. Teaching Tools Archive
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