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Morning and Evening

August 16, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name." — Psalm 29:2 · KJV

God's glory is the result of His nature and His acts. He is glorious in His character, for there is such a store of all that is holy, good, and lovely in God that He must be glorious; and the actions that flow from His character are glorious too. But while He means them to show His creatures His goodness, mercy, and justice, He is equally concerned that the glory belonging to them be given to Himself alone. There is nothing in us in which we may glory, for who makes us to differ from another, and what do we have that we did not receive from the God of all grace? How careful, then, we ought to be to walk humbly before the Lord! The moment we glorify ourselves — since there is room for one glory only in the universe — we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High. Shall the insect of an hour glorify itself against the sun that warmed it into life? Shall the piece of pottery exalt itself above the man who shaped it on the wheel? Shall the dust of the desert strive with the whirlwind, or the drops of the ocean struggle with the storm? Give unto the Lord, all you righteous, give unto the Lord glory and strength; give unto Him the honor due unto His name. Yet it is perhaps one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this: "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory." It is a lesson God is always teaching us, sometimes by the most painful discipline. Let a Christian begin to boast, "I can do all things," without adding "through Christ which strengtheneth me," and before long he will have to groan, "I can do nothing," and mourn in the dust. When we do anything for the Lord, and He is pleased to accept it, let us lay our crown at His feet and cry, "Not I, but the grace of God which was with me."