"Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31)
Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow aspects fo life are not ordained by God; they are ordained by Him equally as much as the profound. We sometimes refuse to be shallow, not out of our deep devotion to God but because we wish to impress other people with the fact that we are not shallow. This is a sure sign of spiritual pride. We must be careful, for this is how contempt for others is produced in our lives. And it causes us to be a walking rebuke to other people because they are more shallow then we are. Beware of posing as a profound person- God became a baby.
To be shallow is not a sign of being sinful, nor is shallow-ness an indication that there is no depth to your life at all- the ocean has a shore. Even the shallow things of life, such as eating and drinking, walking and talking, are ordained by God. These are all things our Lord did. He did them as the Son of God and He said, "A disciple is not above his teacher . . ." (Matthew 10:24)
We are safeguarded by the shallow things of life. We have to live the surface, commonsense life in a commonsense way. Then when God gives us the deeper things, they are obviously separated from the shallow concerns. Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God. We are so nauseatingly serious, so desperately interested in our own character and reputation, we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of life.
Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.
devo taken from My Utmost for His Highest devo book
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I dont quite get this, but from what i gather, its basically how we must not concern ourselves with how great or indepth our lives are? We should focus instead on praising God for even the simple things? i'm not too sure. something like that? My logic isn't the greatest or most accurate soooo....
-drew 93.2?)
i think that its a reminder on how we have to do everything to glorify God. not just praising and devo and serving him through like a fellowship, but in EVERYTHING we do. Let us not become conceited and be like "i am higher than you because I am in a position of higher authority" but rather in whatever we do, we are glorifying God. u can glorify God when you shower(others will like u for it too), wash the dishes, walk to school, sing praises, praying, doing homework.. EVERYTHING is to glorify God. =)
-jacky (2,1) <-- i'll just start from there.... CURSE YOU SHE BUILDING. and im back.. like backstreet's back
its hard to do everything to Glorify God.. i mean what about school? how does school glorify God?
okay i might be able to pull some abstract correlation.. honouring parent's wishes to go to university, and by honouring parents wishes, we glorify God.. but still how does it make US glorify God?
-Jon rbk (1,2)
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