To whom be the Glory?

2 CORINTHIANS 10:17 But he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

In the recent olympics, i recall a table tennis player running to hug her coach immediately after she won one of her matches. Obviously, her coach played a huge part in her victory, and most of the audiences would have identified that.

That table tennis player gave a huge part of her glory to her coach. It is definitely worth looking back and considering, "to whom do we give ours?".

1 CORINTHIANS 6:12 says, "For you were bought at a price. therefore glorify God in your body, and in your Spirit, which are God's."
Just as most soccer players are "bought" to bring glory to it's team and the person who owns the team, so are we purchased with Christ's redeeming blood to give the Lord all glory and honour, and to make His Kingdom known unto all men.

That is what we have to grasp if we truly desire to live life as effective as those of the Christ's disciples. They healed the sick and made the lame to walk. [ACTS 3:6,7] But it always followed with thanksgiving, praise and honour to the Lord, not themselves.[ACTS 3:9].

Our Father in Heaven deserves far far more praise and glory than we can even imagine or understand! We often enter into our Christian lives and forget where we were once headed. Fact is, Christ not only redeemed us, He saved us from the pits of hell! And He decided to involve us on mission with Him, so we might make Him name known to the ends of the earth! I find that exciting. Do you? What ingrates we would be to glory in ourselves each time victory is claimed.

Let us wholeheartedly glory in Our Father who gives us all things good.

To God be the Glory great things He has done
So loved He the World that He gave us His son
Who yielded His life as atonement for Sin
And opened the lifegate that all may go in!