Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Sunday August 16, 2020 |
Morning Time: 3:58 AM PST
"Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name." --Psalm 29:2
God's glory is the result of His nature and acts. He is glorious in His
character, for there is such a store of everything that is holy, and good, and
lovely in God, that He must be glorious. The actions which flow from His
character are also glorious; but while He intends that they should manifest to
His creatures His goodness, and mercy, and justice, He is equally concerned that
the glory associated with them should be given only to Himself. Nor is there
aught in ourselves in which we may glory; for who maketh us to differ from
another? And what have we that we did not receive from the God of all grace?
Then how careful ought we to be to walk humbly before the Lord! The
moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the
universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High. Shall the insect of an
hour glorify itself against the sun which warmed it into life? Shall the
potsherd exalt itself above the man who fashioned it upon the wheel? Shall the
dust of the desert strive with the whirlwind? Or the drops of the ocean struggle
with the tempest? Give unto the Lord, all ye righteous, give unto the Lord glory
and strength; give unto Him the honour that is due unto His name. Yet it is,
perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this
sentence--"Not unto us, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory." It is a lesson
which God is ever teaching us, and teaching us sometimes by most painful
discipline. Let a Christian begin to boast, "I can do all things," without
adding "through Christ which strengtheneth me," and before long he will have to
groan, "I can do nothing," and bemoan himself in the dust. When we do anything
for the Lord, and He is pleased to accept of our doings, let us lay our crown at
His feet, and exclaim, "Not I, but the grace of God which was with me!"
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