Watson on transfering glory to God

Apr. 9 2008

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“We glorify God when we give God the glory for all that we do. We glorify God when we sacrifice the praise and glory of all to God...So when we have done anything praiseworthy we must hide ourselves under the veil of humility and transfer the glory of all we have done to God.”

I have meditated on this often and the question I keep asking is: “Ok, I know I’m supposed to do this, but how?”

Have you ever thought about that? How do you TRANSFER glory to God? We cant send it to him, its not as though he is lacking glory anyway--God is infinite in his glory, he lacks nothing.

So how do we do this? Simple. We just acknowledge to him in private the glory and credit of all that just happened.

Did you do well on a test or a presentation at work? Great, but private who gets credit for that in your mind? Was it your work, your gifting, your personality or intellect?  Yes you worked hard, but was it you?  Nope.

God gave you breath. God gave you a brain that works. God gave you thoughts, he gave you creativity, he gave you words. He gave you teachers to teach you, he gave you parents to hone your skills. The list goes on and on.

It really stinks when we take credit for stuff. I do it all the time to my shame. That is why I love Watson’s encouragement. It is very helpful.

Let us hide under a veil of humility and transfer the glory to God.

Pay attention and remember that when things go well and there seems to be fruitfulness from your work stop and just pray a simple prayer like this: Lord, I acknowledge that all that went well is because of the fact that you gave me the ability and the opportunity. So I praise you and worship you for the joy of being a part of what your doing.

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