So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (I Corinthians 10:31 ESV)
Why?
My uncle John was a ham radio operator. He had built an elaborate short-wave radio that had cost him cash, time, and energy. A couple of times I went over to his home and huddled in the basement, and we searched the radio waves for ham radio operators all over the world.
Many years later I wrote him an email asking if he still played around with his hobby. And while he still owned all of the equipment, he had not used the radio for decades. When I asked him why, he grumbled that all the reasons he had been a ham radio operator had evaporated. The internet had made world-wide communication easier. His children were not at all interested in taking up the hobby. The friends he had made had all quit. He had no reason even to turn the radio on.
He was knowledgeable, passionate, and experienced. But ultimately, he had no reason to continue with his radio.
Our hope and our salvation come only through God’s Grace. He gives us that Grace only through the means of Faith. That Faith is only Faith if it is Faith in Christ Jesus. We only know of such things in only one place, Scripture.
But why does this process matter? What is our reason for clinging to grace, learning faith, knowing Jesus, and studying His Word?
According to Paul, there is one reason to do everything and anything that we do. The prescribed purpose, motivation, and intention of all that we do, even our salvation itself, is to bring glory to God.
We know that. We recite that. But I wonder if we understand what that means.
For the next few days, we will examine what God’s glory is, and how we can aim our lives at it.
God’s glory alone.