I wish I could say I have given all the glory to God in all that I have done. But to be honest, I have lived a life of craving praise and recognition. I would tell people "give the credit to God" but there was a part of me that would get puffed up in pride. It sounds ugly, unchristian of me but it's the truth.
When I read this verse the words "whatsoever" and "all" stand out.
Whatsoever. ANYTHING. Anything I do. Whatsoever I do. If I am in public or in the privacy of my own room, whatever I do I need to give the glory to God. I need to live the same way regardless of my location.
All. EVERYTHING. I can not do something and take partial credit. I can not acknowledge God verbally but in my heart take the glory. Let me ask you... which is better? A verbal "to God be the glory" or an inward "to me be the glory" ?
Oswald Chambers in "My Upmost for His Highest" says, "It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us...
We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory to God in human life, to live a life 'hidden with Christ in God' " (Nov. 16)
"For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God" - Colossians 3:3
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