For His Glory

It's all for God's glory.  This knowledge moves me to repentance.  I was made for His glory alone, I was saved and redeemed for His glory, I am broken and restored for His glory, it is all for Him.  All of it.  Any ounce, any drop of good that is wrung from these times, is His to claim.   I am reminded how short life is.   'Like grass,' we are.  Whatever my plight, the days of my life will assuredly pass quickly.  

I have been chosen to know God, to believe in Him, and to understand that He alone is God.  There is no other.  (taken from Isaiah 43:10).  To Him be the glory for my salvation, both ultimately and in this circumstance.  He says in Isaiah "I have refined you, but not as silver is refined.  Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.  I will rescue you for My sake- yes, for My own sake!  I will not let My reputation be tarnished, and I will not share My glory with idols."

Wow.  I know He loves me with the fiery love of a Father, who knows my name and has engraved it on His palm, yet He will rescue me not for me.  (Pay attention, soul, this life is not about you!)  Yes my God is a compassionate God, one who knows my weaknesses, one who has not only walked on this earth, but tamed it.  However, He will save me, ultimately, not to make it easier for me, not simply to save me from my affliction, but for His glory.  For His names' sake.

It's His story.