What does it mean to glorify God with your life?
Baptism of Christ. Jesus is baptized in the Jordan River by John. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) What does it mean to glorify God with your life? How do you do that? Really, take at least 60 seconds to think about your answer… Ok, what did you come up with? Maybe your response was something like: “I glorify God by praising Him with my words, both in conversation and sincerely singing at church (especially last Sunday).” Or, “I glorify God because I believe in, speak, and defend sound doctrine.” Or even, “I glorify God by the actions of my life, so by serving others and serving in my church.” All of these are good things and things that anyone who is glorifying God must be doing, but there’s a problem: all of these things–as essential as they are–can be done by an unregenerate professing believer (Lk. 18:11, 18-27; Ps. 106:12-13), a true believer with a wrong heart (1 Cor. 3:13-15; 4:6), or a true believer with a right heart . Notice a theme? Its a matter of the heart. Yes, God is con...