THAT’S right!
It’s when we manage to glorify God always in
our thoughts, our words and deeds, that we would have the
best time
here on earth, the highest “high” we can ever attain in
this life.
That’s simply because glorifying God constitutes the best
act of love
we can give God who is our Creator and Father.
Glorifying God
can only signify that we are giving
everything to him, everything in our life that includes
not only the
good things but also the repented bad and negative things
all the way
to our death.
It is an act of
total self-giving and submission to him
who is everything to us. Through it, we empty ourselves
completely to
fill ourselves only with God. It is where we unite
ourselves to him
completely and share in his own glory.
This act of
glorifying God presumes that we do it out of
love, out of freedom, and of total gratuitousness that
corresponds to
God’s total and gratuitous love for us.
Let’s remember
that God himself through Christ has to
empty himself by becoming man, out of sheer love for us.
This is the
language of love. One empties himself to fill himself
with his
beloved. We achieve this self-emptying and God-filling
when we manage
to glorify God.
We should see
to it that whatever we do, we should try our
best that we manage to glorify God. St. Paul precisely
said as much:
“Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all
for the glory
of God.” (1 Cor 10,31)
We may have to
make a very deliberate effort to do this,
especially in the beginning. Hopefully, time will come
that after
doing this many times, it will become a habit to us,
something that we
do automatically.
To be sure,
glorifying God will not reduce our humanity,
much less, distort it. On the contrary, it will enhance
our humanity,
and make it reach its peak development. It can only mean
that we can
take on anything in this life, whether it is humanly
considered as
good or bad, big or small, ordinary or extraordinary,
etc. With the
proper understanding of our faith, everything can be made
an occasion
to glorify God.
It will make us
above the ups and downs of life even as we
go through the twists and turns of life. It will give us
joy and
peace. A sense of confidence permeates our whole life.
We need to do
some rehearsal to make glorifying God a
habit in us. We have to activate our faith to be able not
only to
relate everything to God, but, more importantly, to use
them to
glorify God.
We have to stay
away from being restricted by relying only
on some human standards of achieving joy and peace. We
have to rely on
our faith that gives us the whole picture and provides us
with all the
necessary means to achieve joy and peace while here on
earth. That
way, we can manage to glorify God.
Let’s remember
that the more we empty ourselves and give
ourselves to God, the more we will unite ourselves with
him, the more
he fills us with his graces. St. Bernard expressed this
truth
beautifully when said: “Nothing is lacking when
everything is given.”
Yes, everything
has to be given, including our rest and
recreation, our problems and failures, our difficulties
and trials.
Nothing is useless in terms of glorifying God. Everything
can be made
use of!
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