The ultimate purpose of the Christian is to bring glory to God. We have been created for His pleasure. So to determine, by God’s grace, to live in a way pleasing to Jesus will result in His being glorified. If we are going to truly bring glory to the Lord, it must begin by making a firm decision to yield to Him with the realization that we have been bought with a dear price. As we press on we inevitably will be doing those works of faith that will glorify our God. May each of us be careful to maintain those God-glorifying works.

Within the Body of Christ, our Lord is glorified when we lovingly use the gifts and abilities that He has entrusted to us. As we follow the example of Jesus in serving each other in these practical, day-to-day ways, the Body is blessed and the Lord gets all of the glory. In fact, we can even glorify God by how we eat and drink! Those “worship services” in the shower, or while folding laundry, or taking out the trash are ways we glorify Jesus, which by the way transforms mundane duty into musical, heavenly ministry.

Of course, apart from an active abiding in Christ, there can be no fruit in our lives. However, as we abide in Jesus, the fruit that does develop not only reveals that we are disciples indeed but, more importantly, enables us to glorify our heavenly Father. Oh how God’s fruit is so needed both within and outside the church!

Now it shouldn’t be surprising that there is a type of suffering because of our identity with Jesus. However, in this too we can glorify the Lord with beatitude-like joy.

As God works in us, may we continually glorify His name!