What is going through one's mind if God's glory is the ultimate end of his actions?

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Ben Maas. . . . .Facebook
In college, attending First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), Ada, OH, and
Belle Center Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPCNA), Belle Center, OH
When at home, attending Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC), Mansfield, OH

“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.”
-Jonathan Edwards-

"Am I being obedient to God's revealed will?"

WLC Question 91

AMR

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Patrick
Member, PCA
Chandler, AZ
ReformedTheologyInstitute.com

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

I mean, more with respect to the workings of one's mind. One can be faultless in terms of legalistic righteousness as Paul was, but only regenerates can live for God's glory. What does it mean to make the glory of God one's ultimate end or purpose?

Obeying and loving God. Doing, thinking, and desiring things with the motivation to honor and please God.

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Curt Hayashida
member, Community Bible Church (Non-denominational)
Vallejo, CA

That you seek God's will in everything, informed by His Word, and by His grace alone.

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Scott
PCA
North Carolina


"Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised)"
Hebrews 10:23

I often do things for my wife's pleasure or convenience at the expense of my own, but I can do it without even realising it - not making a decision to do it because I want to put my wife first, but it's just what I want to do and only when I look back and analyse can I realise why I did it that way. It's like that with God (though lamentably less frequently for me), that I can make a decision or do a certain thing, and later look back and recognise that I was thinking only of His honour and glory and was not thinking of myself at all - was being forgetful of myself. Another situation would be if you work for a company - you can develop a habit of putting the company or the team before yourself. Now to "live for God's glory", if it is to mean something that is not in our own strength, I think means to have that sort of thing developed as a consistent habit. Such a short sentence to summarise a fearful and glorious influence of God in a believer's life! By its very nature it seems clear that only God can effect in a person this habit of forgetfulness of self and focus on God's glory. If it a work of ours then the very exercise of our will and strength in that work shows that it was partly to our glory.

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Paul
No denomination, affiliated with FIEC
"Deliver me from worldly dispositions, for I am born from above and destined for glory" - Valley of Vision
"They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation" - Peter

This is something that I have been thinking a lot about lately, so I must ask a further question:

What does it mean to seek God's will in everything, by His grace alone?

I would appreciate your, or someone elses, input regarding this.

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Christoffer S.
Layman
Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran church
Vaasa, Finland

Realizing that it is faith in Christ's righteousness alone, resting in that alone, that makes us "right" in God's sight.

It is not our own "good" works that make us right because we have and do sin, and God has every right to punish us for our disobedience against Him.

We can only marvel at and live in light of the fact that God has, undeservedly, according to reasons known only to Himself, chosen to give us what we do not deserve- mercy and count us righteous, somehow because of Christ... and only because of Christ.

Live for God's glory = to magnify His name