Psalm 70:4, "But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always say, 'Let God be exalted!'"
I am so guilty of this. Let's just say I am a work in progress. David wants deliverance (again...ha...this is another reason why David resonates with me...he is so in tune with how human he is and how he is in need of a Savior ALWAYS whether he has messed up or whether he is unrightly being persecuted and pursued). But I am unlike David in that he seeks deliverance for God's glory, not his own. When he gets delivered from his circumstance, he knows others will see and look to God, because David gives God the glory.
I am learning. At the moment, I so often pray for my deliverance out of selfishness, because it is not comfortable for me, I am hurting, people I love are hurting. God might be glorified in it, but first I have to give Him the glory. Full disclosure...often after He has rescued me, my thanks is quick, if at all, and I am moving on; or somehow I think I had ANYTHING to do with it (pretty yucky to own and see in myself). But not my man, David. He understands that his deliverance means HIS glory.
I heard Joni Eareckson Tada speak this past Sunday. She has titled her new devotional book, A Spectacle of Glory. https://www.amazon.com/Spectacle-Glory-Light-Shining-through/dp/0310346770/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493206545&sr=8-1&keywords=spectacle+of+glory It is titled after Moses seeing the burning bush that was not consumed which could only be of God. She wants her life to be like that spectacle of Glory that one turns aside to see knowing it could only be God in her. She gives God the glory in her life...like David. I have some amazing examples in my life to follow...may I walk in their likeness and be like them.
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