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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:
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? |
Bible Answer: Sometimes it is with silence that we honor him. He says, “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth”. Again, “The LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him”. And again, “Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation”. When he wants to speak, we honor him by being silent. He has said, “For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days will I say the word, and will perform it, says the Lord God”. He has said, “I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified”. And said unto me, “You are my servant, in whom I will be glorified”. In my life, Lord, be glorified. Whether in living or in dying or in speaking or in silence, Father, glorify your name. |