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NASB | John 12:28 "Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 12:28 "[Rather, I will say,] 'Father, glorify (honor, extol) Your name!'" Then a voice came from heaven saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again." |
Bible Question (short): How can I glorify God? |
Question (full): How can I glorify God? Sometimes it seems I can do so by simply being. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. As Shakespeare’s Hamlet noted in amazement: “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!” And yet, he asks, “And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?” “Man delights not me”, he says. God made man in his own image. All things, including man, all things in heaven and in earth were made by him, and for him. God wants to take pleasure in us, and we are supposed to show forth his glory. And yet God has to strive with man. And God says in Genesis 6:3, “My spirit shall not always strive with man”. And God says (Isaiah 45:9) “Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!” “Drop down, ye heavens, from above”, He says, “and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together”. “Let righteousness spring up”. So I would yield myself to please him, to glorify him. But how can I do that? He is at work within me to will and to do his good pleasure. But even now there are stirrings within me to things and to say things that will accomplish the opposite. How can I glorify God? |