Glory To God In The Highest

This Christmas many congregations will be singing as the angels announced Christ’s birth to the shepherds—“Glory to God in the highest…” (Luke 2:14).

What does it mean to glorify God?  The old Puritan preacher Thomas Watson wrote, “We glorify God, when we are God-admirers.”  Another preacher said, “To glorify God means to make God look good.”  This is what God designed creation to do.  As David said, “The heavens declare the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1).  This should be the goal of all things—To exalt God in this world, even in what some would consider mundane like eating and drinking—“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God”  (1 Corinthians 10:31).  Even the animal kingdom glorifies God, “The beast of the field shall honour me” (Isaiah 43:20).  Only the human “beast” doesn’t!

Does your life make God look good?  May each of us say with David, “I will praise thee, O Lord my God, and I will glorify thy name.”