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If you are a Christian, you would have heard this rather famous verse. It is so all-encompassing that it is very fitting to be placed at the footnote of our notebook pages, on the pages of our wall calendar, framed beautifully on our wall, and on bumper stickers. On one hand, it gives us a simple and easy-to-remember guideline on how we live our day-to-day life as Christians: Do all to the glory of God. On the other hand, it sounds so … nice and so… Christianly correct (is there such term?). Even in our prayers, we utter frequently, “May it be done unto your glory!” or something along that line.
As Christians, of course, we want God glorified, and we want to bring glory to God. However (you may have sensed the ‘however’ coming, have you?), do we really know what it means? Do we really understand what we are talking about? Because, to be honest, sometimes I don’t know. Sometimes, I say that in my prayer because it is the right thing to say. Sometimes, I say that to make things more ‘complete.’ If it is not for God’s glory, it lacks something. Sometimes, and I think this is the worst, I use that phrase in order to make the thing that I do feel like glorifying God. I use that phrase as a blanket statement to ‘cover’ things that I do, to make me feel that I am glorifying God in what I do. For example, when we are about to study or prepare for exam, we would pray that God will bless the preparation and that our exam preparation will glorify God. But do we really know what it means? Sometimes, if we are honest, we pray that prayer simply to give ourselves a ‘God-glorifying’ stamp onto our study to convince ourselves that we glorify God regardless whether or not it in fact glorifies God.