Resolved

By God’s grace and the power of God’s Spirit, I am resolved that today I will do more to build God’s Kingdom than to build my own.

In deference to Bro. Edwards, who lived by 70 separate resolutions, I want my life to be summed up in the one above. Our lives should be all about God. Yet we want life to be all about us. We want to be served. We want to be worshipped. We want to be loved. We want to build our own kingdom and we want other people to help us build it.

Parents rear their children with the goal of impressing others with “good kids” so they, the parents, get the glory. Pastors (and I am one of them) want to build a great church so they can feel and look “successful.” Employees work tirelessly to become “Employee of the Month” just for the recognition. There are plenty of other examples but the point is we are bent toward, and busy building our own kingdom rather than the Kingdom of God.

We tend to be “glory-grabbers.” Yet we rarely take the time to realize how foolish and dangerous it is to attempt to steal God’s glory.

Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

We were created to bring glory to our loving Lord.

Isaiah 43:7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.

Ephesians 1:3-6 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Ephesians 1:11-12 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

It is no wonder so many of us feels so empty and unfulfilled in life. We are living lives that are diametrically opposed to God’s purpose for us. We are living for self and not our Sovereign Lord.

This is where the resolution may help. Build His kingdom!