Glorify Your Name

What trouble and difficulties are you currently going through in life?

Is your prayer more along the line of, "Father, deliver me", or "Father, glorify your name"?

As Jesus approached the hour of his crucifixion, He pointed out that it is impossible for a grain to produce fruit unless it first dies. We must be willing to die to ourselves in order to truly live unto God.

Jesus admitted that He was troubled in His soul as He pondered what was ahead for Him, but He couldn't ask the Father to save Him from it, because He knew that it was God's will for Him to go to the cross. His prayer was therefore, "Father, glorify your name."

But Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. "Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name."
(Joh 12:23-28)

So what's it going to be? Dead to ourselves and alive unto God? Or, . . . ?

Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
(Php 3:8-10)

What do you hold most dear? How closely are you holding it? Is it something that God wants you to hold on to?

Are you hearing God's voice? Are you heeding His call? Is your prayer, "Lord, glorify your name through me"?

Yours in Him,
Pastor B.