Devotions

DEVOTION BY MARK FUGATE 

God’s Going to Get His Glory

This was a random line from a sermon I heard when I was a boy.  And the preacher didn’t even develop it – he just said it in passing but it stuck with me.  He said no matter what God’s going to get His glory.  I agree with that completely.  You can resist it, and keep resisting it if you want, but one day

• Every knee is going to bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God.

  God is going to get his glory.  If he can’t find a single soldier in the Israeli army to take on a loud mouth trash talking giant – then he will use a shepherd boy with a slingshot. If it means he has to look out into a storm on a boat after he’s been sawing logs and he tells that storm to shut up – God is going to get his glory.  Lazarus went from being sick to being four days dead, why – because God is going to get his glory.  Why did Gideon have to fight with 300 men and battle an entire nation – God is going to get his glory.  With nails in his hands and nails in his feet, between two thieves he’s going to get his glory.   But here’s the part that we don’t like.

• All of these people that God used had to go through an enemy, or a    storm, or a trial, or a difficult time, it was never easy.

 And man it’s a difficult lesson to learn sometimes but it’s vital – and believe me I have learned this truth personally from the Word of God.  I know we want to avoid all storms but listen to me Church

• Sometimes God won’t let you avoid a storm if that’s what it takes to show you His glory.

The truth is God’s strength has always been made known in our weaknesses.  And God’s power has always been best seen in our problems.  And God’s glory has always been revealed in our difficulties and failures.   There may be a lot of things about our Great God that we do not know, but we know this.  God’s going to get his glory.