Do you seek glory for yourself? Are you seeking to be recognized by large numbers of people? For what are you seeking recognition? Job performance? Brilliance? An invention? Are you seeking to be honored by others? Will you give up your honor for someone else?
We often seek to be recognized by others for a significant accomplishment. We want others to think highly of us. Finding our five minutes of fame, or far more than that, is a lifelong pursuit for many people. They are willing to give up everything to be known by the public.
Though we may seek glory, it is often born out of our desire to be in control. Unfortunately, we are not in control. It is only when we realize God is in control and that we are to submit to him that we will truly live. But it is not just about how we live nor the life we can make for ourselves on this earth. It is about something far greater than that.
Jesus came down from heaven, from a place of pure perfection, to live a human life for roughly thirty-three years so that He would experience what we experience. He knows our feelings, our disappointments, our joys, and our desires. But His main purpose was to suffer a horrible death so that we might have eternal life. In suffering that horrible death He earned a crown of glory greater than any other crown.
I pray we all give up seeking our own glory. I pray we realize God is in control. I pray each one of us know that Jesus came to suffer a death we deserve so we can have eternal life. Stop seeking glory. Know God is in control. Know Jesus suffered a horrible death. Trust He died for your eternal life.
Hebrews 2:8b-9 Now in subjecting all things to them, God left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them, but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Marty Pressey 