Acts 1:8 — But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 

I’ve been struggling a bit with this glorifying God business. As I wrote in my last piece, I’m sure that the process is tied to the business of loving God, and loving my fellow man. What does that really look like?
We say it so often, “love God”. What does that really mean? How do I love the omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent God? 

The great theologian Karl Barth once said that the greatest theology he knew was in the little hymn, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” I have a similar feeling about another little hymn:

When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word,

What a glory He sheds on our way!

While we do His good will, He abides with us still,

And with all who will trust and obey.

Trust and obey, for there’s no other way

To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

Loving God, in the end amounts to placing total trust in Him, for everything, and being unconditionally willing to return to Him everything that He has given to us.
What then, about loving my fellow man? 

Jesus said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40). But He said another thing about the law and the prophets — the force of scripture — “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 7:12)

What it amounts to is that I should be seeking for others what I would think of as the highest good for myself. And that highest good is my salvation. That puts me into a straightforward position. “Loving my neighbor” takes me right back to “trust and obey” — obedience in this case being to “make disciples in all the world” and to be a witness in “Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” The trust comes in knowing that God will do His great part if I do my tiny part.

Giving glory to God. In the end it’s very simple. Play my part in bringing others into the kingdom …