To God be the glory

Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. – Romans 16.25-27

We come to the end of Romans. Paul wrote it to help establish the beleivers in Rome with truths of God’s word before he could get there. He closes it with a reminder of who God is and the purpose of all we do.

The very conclusion of the whole book is this – to God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ forever.

We humans can give glory to so many things. We can glorify our familes. We can glorify our nations. We can glorify ourselves. We can glorify our churches or our jobs or our sports teams or any number of things. All of those are fine, but none of them are really worth giving our glory to.

I think we tend to separate God and secular. I think we tend to put God in a Sunday box and pull Him out then and when we need Him. We glorify Him – but only in the God things.

That’s not the way it though. All of our lives, every aspect, is to glorify Him. Whatever we eat or drink or whatever we do should all be done to the glory of God. To God, the only wise God, be the glory, great things He hath. So loved He the world that He gave us His Son.