Glorifying God is our best moment

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!