Glory of God

Wanted to share with you something that I have been thinking about: I am reading through the Gospel of John and I came across a verse that really challenged me and I want to pass it along. As I stated the other day, everything on this earth, in hell and in heaven displays the Glory of God. EVERYTHING displays and is given for His Glory. Your marriage and your children are given to you to show you His Glory. His Glory and Majesty are displayed for us to see in the pages of the Holy Scriptures. His creation displays His Glory. Our eternal salvation or damnation displays His complete Grace, His complete Mercy, and His complete Justice. All Glory is to be given to Him. Anyway, you get the point. So why bring it up again? Because this is what we are to Preach, Teach, and impress on our wives and children! The Glory of His Majesty! We are to take the Word of God present and place it continually before our family (both the Word and in our lives) and then point to Jesus and say as John the Baptist did, "BEHOLD, THE LAMB OF GOD!!". (This is the verse that has challenged me.) Whether we are preaching, teaching, or serving our families, our church, or our communities, if we do not point to Jesus and cry, "Behold, the Lamb of God!!" than we are doing them no service. Men, we must die twice every single day in our lives, Die to ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him, then we die to ourselves and wash our wives and children in the Word of God....then point to Jesus and say "Behold, the Lamb of God" and beg the Lord to open the eyes of our wives and children to see Him as He is and follow Him. Men, salvation is of the Lord, but you MUST point to Him!

Men, everything, our lives, our desires, our jobs, our little hobbies, our time, our energy, our emotions...everything must not be put at the feet of the cross. It must be put ON the cross. You cannot die at the foot of the cross, you must hang on it to die.

"Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples; and he looked upon Jesus as He walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!". And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus" --- John 1:35-37

Men, my prayer is that when it is all said and done, my wife and children would hear me preach the Word and see me point to Him and then follow Jesus!