STEALING HIS GLORY?
Memorise: For mine own
sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted?
And I will not give my glory unto another. Isaiah 48:11
Read: Acts 12:20-23
MESSAGE!
It is very wrong, and an act of stealing, for a person to take all the
credit for a job done by team effort. If you are part of the team that
performed a particular feat, it is wrong to relegate others to the background
and bring yourself to the fore. It even gets worse when you steal God’s glory.
Do you know that some people try to steal the show from God? Hear them out
during testimony time: they will talk about the problem and lay much emphasis
on how much they prayed, fasted or sowed seeds, giving God little or no room in
it. Whereas, the emphasis should be on what God did or how God intervened. The
truth is, while facing a problem, it is possible to pray even a hundred times
and God will not hear you. That God heard or intervened at all is a mark of His
mercy. If He chooses not to answer, what can you do? Stop stealing the show,
because you are nothing without God!
Some servants of God being used of Him in the miraculous have become so
deceived that they now rub shoulders with God. How can a man of God say, “If
you are sick, come to me and I will heal you?” Are you now the healer? Can you
cure a headache, if God has not chosen to channel His power through you? If
there is one thing God is not prepared to share, it is His glory. He made this
very clear in Isaiah 42:8:
“I am the LORD: that is my
name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven
images.”
Anytime you attribute a feat to yourself, your power, wisdom or ability,
you steal from God’s glory. If you are involved in such, you are courting
serious trouble. You need to learn from the shameful demise of Herod in our
Bible reading, after He stole God’s glory for himself. If God is doing anything
through you, it is for the sake of His Name. This He very much said in Isaiah 48:11:
“For mine own sake, even
for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I not
give my glory unto another.”
Have you stolen from God’s glory? Have you taken credit for any miracle,
sign or wonder the Lord has used you to perform? Return it to Him today in
humility! Are you ascribing the growth and development of your church to
yourself? What could you have done without God’s help? Return every glory and
credit you have stolen, lest you bring God’s judgement on yourself.
Action Point
In every way you have stolen God’s glory, restitute now.
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