What it means to glorify God?

Today, I was eating lunch with a few friends at the house of very friendly Lady that invited us over for tritip? It was delicious, how else could it have been. It was a wonderful time and it was awesome to get to know someone older from church.

While eating we had an interesting conversation, in which this question came up: What does it mean to glorify God? How do we glorify God? Hayden suggested that it is given God his proper place. But what is his proper place, what does he truly deserve?

This is what got me thinking, what does it actually mean to glorify God?

It means that I must decrease, so that he can increase! It means that I must bow lower, so that he may be higher in my life!

I asked myself a further question: How much did he do for me?

The answer is so simple, but still so incomprehensible: He did all! He is the very Life that I live, he is the Love that I give, he is the Truth that I speak, he is the mercy that I show, he is the Beauty I see, he is the kindness I experience, he is all in all!

But what does that mean? I do not understand, I am just lost in my Father's arms.

Still he did so much more, not only did he create all just for my enjoyment, no he did so much more. He gave his very self, his Son on that rugged Cross, so that I could not only experience all of the above, but his very self! That is what man is made for that is what I desire.

So how do I glorify God?

By giving my very self, my all, my every breath. Everything less is dishonoring to God and I should not even bother. He deserves my all and even that is not enough. Still that's what I will give and nothing less.

I will not rest and not halt until the day that he returns in all his glory or until the last drop of my blood has been spilled and he calls me home to himself, saying: "Well done, my good and faithful servant!"