It’s human nature to love praise and to do everything possible to get credit, attention and even glory for our achievements. For example, every student wants to make the highest score in the classroom. Every athlete wants to win and break records. Every doctor wants to be known as the best in his field. Every teacher wants to be the best in her school. All of these people want these things for one reason… to be recognized as the best.
The way God operates and transforms a persons life is very different.
God does not depend on our hands or our strength in order to make changes in our lives. He does not want anyone to be able to glorify themself by saying, “I got this because I am so good, or I am so educated, etc.”
All glory belongs to God and when a person trusts in Him and gives their life one hundred percent to Him, He shows them that they have put their trust in the right place, by acting in their favor. He said in Judges,
“The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.”
(Judges 7:2)
What God was saying is that He would get no glory for delivering victory with so many people involved. Have you ever thought about the fact that maybe you haven’t gotten a quick and easy solution to the problem that you are now going through, because God would not be glorified in a quick and easy way out? He is glorified through miracles. And that does not come from our human hands, but from the mighty Hand of God.
Learn to depend on Him, and not on yourself, and He will do marvelous things in your life.
May the God of the Bible bless you,
Bishop Joshua Fonseca
