Dont Waste Your Life

What does it mean to glorify God? It may get a dangerous
twist if we are not careful. Glorify is like the word beautify. But
beautify usually means “make something more beautiful than it
is,” improve its beauty. That is emphatically not what we mean
by glorify in relation to God. God cannot be made more glorious
or more beautiful than he is. He cannot be improved, “nor
is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything”
(Acts 17:25). Glorify does not mean add more glory to God.
It is more like the word magnify. But here too we can go
wrong. Magnify has two distinct meanings. In relation to God,
one is worship and one is wickedness. You can magnify like a
telescope or like a microscope. When you magnify like a microscope,
you make something tiny look bigger than it is. A dust
mite can look like a monster. Pretending to magnify God like that
is wickedness. But when you magnify like a telescope, you make
something unimaginably great look like what it really is. With the
Hubble Space Telescope, pinprick galaxies in the sky are revealed
for the billion-star giants that they are. Magnifying God like that
is worship.