Glorify God

1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. 2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.- Proverbs 27:1-2

43 for they loved praise from men more than praise from God. - John 12:43

As I stated in the previous post (Never Enough), we should not care what other thinks of us, yet it is better for other people to praise us, than ourselves. When I said that I will only care about what God or I think of me, I got it wrong. I should only care what God thinks of me, because I am made of sin as others are and I will judge my actions through justification as opposed to the condition of my heart as God will judge me. This life is not about other people but about glorifying God. At a devotional group I attend every Wednesday, a girl named Brooke stated the most life changing statement I have heard to date:  "does this action, no matter how small, glorify God?" If you happen to see a piece of paper on the floor and don't pick it up, how did that action glorify God? I doesn't, it shows laziness (something attacked heavily in Proverbs) and a lack of care about what God has provide you with in this world. The image we want to possess in regard to those around us, the facade that we want to uphold, is only as strong as our relationship with God. When we want to glorify Him and only Him, people will hate you, get used to it. "You cannot serve two masters" has more than one meaning. It not only means money, but self image, others, work, family, self preservation, or anything else in this world that is not Him. 

Never Enough

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe

For every time I have said that I was never enough for someone else, I have only hindered myself more. I say this because the question is not if you are good enough for people; the question is are you good enough for yourself and God.  


When it comes down to it, you know who you ultimately want to be. You know who you are now, and you know that you are far from what you want to be (or at least most of us have this feeling). I cannot express to you everything that I want to change about myself; however, those things I want to change make me approachable to someone else. They allow me to speak to others when they need it most. They allow me to understand where others are coming from. Do I still not like those things about myself, of course! I still want to change those things for the better because stagnation will get me nowhere! When I am comfortable with where I'm at in life, this is when it needs to change. Only fools and wise men never change and to say that you are wise makes you a fool because a wise man knows he knows nothing. Thus, I must change, I must have a constant change in my life. Because of that change, I will always be enough in that moment for what I am supposed to be. 


I want a closer relationship to God, one that is exponentially growing. I do not want that relationship to sit idle while I continue on a path that will lead to destruction. A path that I think is the right road may lead to death; thus, I must focus on the one, true God and make that, always, the focus of my life. I do not want this relationship to be stagnate as those from my younger years were. Those relationships grew apart, they are no longer friends, significant others, or acquaintances, they are just a distant memory. This cannot be my relationship with God! My relationship with Him should be ever increasing, ever stronger, and eternal. Thus, the only way I am "never enough" is if I let my relationship with God become stagnate by only worrying about the people who can only do so much damage in this life time. If I let the people in my life rule my relationship with God, if I let other things become more important, if I let my anger, pride, inability to let go of stupid competitive characteristics, or having to be right come in between that relationship, then, and only then, am I not good enough. I must remember that individuals that surround me do not help me in the end, only God can help me, yet he will judge not only my actions, but my heart as well. I must focus on God and become good enough for Him, not you.

If I can talk to others everyday, I can talk to God