When someone is sick, people pray. When God heals, the credit too often goes to the medical care they received, or to the natural healing processes. Both may have played a significant role, but if they are all that is needed, why pray? No intervention of God was needed if healing could have been obtained through less than supernatural means. Or we pray for a job. When God gives it, we credit our good fortune, our resume, or our connections, never acknowledging publicly the God behind them all.
In our age of political correctness, we do not attribute successes to God’s power. We know that many may not share our faith. Inwardly, we give quiet thanks. Outwardly, we let the misconception lie. We keep our speech God-free. Meanwhile, the Giver of all good things is silent.
Why do our words not give Him glory due His name? Why do we not verbally credit Him with every blessing? Perhaps we do not want to sound overly pious. Perhaps we’ve noticed how obnoxious our society perceives people who confidently speak of God. We’ve let our culture intimidate us into being tentative in mentioning His name. In many of our circumstances, He Remains Unglorified.
“Ascribe to The LORD the glory due His Name.” (Psalm 96:8)
One of God’s purposes behind His great works, aside from the simple fact that He loves us, is His zeal for the glory of His Name. When we credit Him for what He has done, we are aligning ourselves with the zeal of The Lord Himself. We are fulfilling our created purpose to glorify Him.
Let’s turn the tide and not subvert God’s purpose in our blessings, but instead acknowledge Him as The Source? Let’s be the first, let’s lead the way to ascribe to Him the glory due His Name. And as a result, the Giver of all good things will be even more ready to give to us.
Have a glorious weekend. Make it better by worshiping The LORD with those who are always ready and willing to give Him glory at every opportunity, not because they have to, but because they get to.
All For Jesus – Nothing More, Nothing Less, Nothing Else.
Vic Alvarado 