How does a person glorify God? Our main purpose is to glorify God. That’s what living is all about. It’s not about our desires, but His. We tend to focus on everything we want rather than what God wants.
Spiritual maturity is simply concentrating and focusing on God until we are caught up in His majesty and His glory.
Throughout my life, I have tried to fill the hole in my soul, with everything things but God. Alcohol, drugs, sex, and material things. It’s wasn’t until I used God to fill the hole that I felt whole.
Here are some steps to live for the glory of God:
- Confess your sins
Confession of sin glorifies God, because if you excuse your sin, you absolve yourself and responsibility and blame God for letting you get into a mess.
Adam illustrates this in Genesis when God confronted him, he had an excuse
“This woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree” -Genesis 3:12
He was practically saying, “You did it, God. If You hadn’t given me this woman, none of this would have happened.”
To do that is to when God and to assign guilt to Him. But God is never at fault when we sin.  Implying that God is somehowresponsible maligns maligns His holiness. So when we try to sneak out from under the absolute responsibility for our own sin, we commit grievous sin against the glory of God.
1 John 1:9 says,
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
The Greek word for “confess” is homologeo, meaning “to say the same thing.” to confess means to agree with God that sin is all our fault and repent. This act glorifies God. We don’t have to beg God for forgiveness. He is faithful and just to forgive as soon as we agree with Him.
Don’t think you have to ask for forgiveness for the same sin over and over. All it will do is bring us down, exactly what Satan wants to do.
Matthew 7:7-8 says,
“Ask, and it will be given to you, seek, and you will find, knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
- Bear Fruit
In John 15:8 Jesus told His disciples,
“My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit.”
Why? Because then the world can see the results of a Spirit-filled life. That is what we are here for -to put God on display to the world.
Colossians 1:10 says,
“Walk in a manner worthy to the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work.”
Good works are fruit. While good works won’t save us, when we live a life of good works, the world will see that we glorify our Father in heaven.
- Give Praise To God
Psalm 50:23 says,
“He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me.”
Praise honors God. One way to praise God is to give him credit for everything. In 2 Samuel 12:26-31, when Joan won the victory against Rabbah and got possession of the enemy’s crown, he sent for King David so he could present the crown to him. This is a good illustration how a believer should act towards God (our Master). We win the victory in our life, but we don’t wear the crown. We give it to the Lord, who has won the victory for us.
- Be Content
We may be upset about our circumstances. But we have to remember who made us -God. He promised to supply all our needs. When we are content, with knowledge, God’s sovereignty in our lives, and that gives Him glory. If we are disoriented, it’s the same as questioning God’s wisdom. That doesn’t glorify Him.
In Philippians 4:11 Paul, testified,
“I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.”
Paul was confident that God would use all things -poverty, as well as abundance, comfort, as well as pain for Paul’s good and God‘s glory (Romans 8:28). He didn’t say, I’ll give glory in spite of my pain, he said I will give God glory because of it.
When we are upset for any reason, our job, our partner, our finances it is a terrible testimony about the goodness of God. What kind of God do we have? Is He really sovereign? Can He really be trusted? Glorifying God means that we praise Him with absolute contentment, knowing that our life is God‘s plan for us now.
- Pray According to God’s Will
Jesus said in John 14:13,
“Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
Jesus’s name signifies all that He is and all that He would want. Praying in Him name means pray in accordance to Him character and His will. And God likes to reveal His glory in answered prayer. That is why He commands us to pray -so He can show us His greatness and we can give Him the praise He’s worthy to receive.
- Proclaim God’s Word
Paul wrote in 2 Thessalonians 3:1,
“Pray for us that the Word of the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified in, just as it did also with you.”
How has the Word glorified through those believers? Because they heard it and believed. They trusted Jesus and we were born again, and God got the glory.
Presenting God’s Word clearly and accurately always gives Him glory. Every time a Sunday school teacher teaches a class, every time a Bible study leader opens the Word in someone’s living room, every time a parent sits down with their family and begins talking about the word of God, God is glorified. We honor Him by making His Word known and understood.
- Lead others to Jesus
Call also good quarry when people are redeemed. He is glorified when Satan‘s prison is broke open and men and women are turned loose from the power of the evil one. People are saved from their sins in order to give God glory. so the more people who are brought to Jesus, the more thanksgiving is going on, and the more there are in the choir singing hallelujah (2 Corinthians 4:15).
When we lived to go off by God, He response by giving us overwhelming joy. If you say. When we have a tough life, we make it we don’t have any joy, but if we start glorifying, God, we will have joy.
Joy does not necessarily always make sorrow, discouragement, pain, and other failures go away, but as believers, we can experience supernatural joy, even in the midst of those tough things. When our joy begins to fade, it is a sure sign of encroaching sin or unbelief. It’s a sign. We need to confess the sin in our lives and pray like David,
“Restore to me the joy of Your salvation” -Psalm 51:12
Then we can yield to the Holy Spirit and our joy will return.
From Pity to Praise 