FAITH CAPSULE: Living for the glory of God is giving God attention.
Isaiah 45
God gave His attention to all by giving His beloved son.
Give God His worthy attention and receive His desired intention.
Respond to God by living for His glory.
Revelation 4:11 informs all, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
God deserves attention from all creation.
Jesus came for all by declaring, “…I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John10:10)
The reason for His coming is the evidence of the love of God for all.
The love of God for all is to live for the glory of God.
Living for the glory of God is to gain and retain the presence of God.
The Ten Commandments reveal how much attention God demands from His creation.
Exodus 20:3-8 records, “You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
Living for the glory of God is giving God attention.
A Jealous God demands full attention.
Isaiah 45:4-7 about His desire for us to know Him.
God is the only God to know, and there is none besides Him.
God is worthy to receive glory and honor.
In His commandment, He did not ask for too much.
God cares for His children, as He expects His children to give Him attention.
Are you giving Him attention only by mouth?
Attending to Him just by mouth is not enough, but serving Him indeed, and in truth.
Are you giving God due attention?
God spoke in Isaiah 45:9, “Woe to him who strives with his Maker…” Denying Him His due attention is striving with Him.
Give God His worthy attention to gain and retain His presence.
Knowing to give self to the word of God is giving Him attention.
Apostle Paul encourages all, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” (Acts 20:32)
Prayer for today: Ask to be delivered and be preserved from every kind of spirit that takes away one not to give God due attention.