What Is Glory?

When you win a game, achieve an athletic goal, shine in a performance, or break a record, your natural response as a competitor is to want the credit and whatever reward is attached to that success. Another way you might describe it is “glory.” But it’s when you find yourself chasing glory that it becomes a problem. It puts you out of balance with God’s plan, which is to give Him all the glory for what He has done for you and through you. Learn how to go from chasing a glory that doesn’t last to living out the glory of God for eternal impact.

You don’t have to shy away from glory; you just need to reorient Who gets it. You were created to reflect God's glory. When you give God the glory instead of seeking your own, the weight of pressure and expectations placed on you is lifted.

Go from chasing your own glory to reflecting Christ's lasting Glory that never fades. The coach and athlete story of Glory can be seen below:

Once Upon A Time… I strived for individual success leading to self-serving glory.

And Every Day… I lacked the ability to live up to the expectations placed on me.

Until One Day… God showed me He can do more with my surrender than my performance.

And Now… I reflect God's glory as a disciple maker because I seek His Kingdom first. 

Chasing Glory

When Christ resets my perspective, I'm free in Him

everyone who is called by my name,

  whom I created for my glory,

  whom I formed and made

~Isaiah 43:7

Revealed Glory

I'm created for God's glory, not chasing my own

 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

~John 1:14

Reflecting Glory

God's glory is revealed to me through Jesus, and I can have a relationship with Him

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

~2 Corinthians 3:18

Lasting Glory

When my hope is in God's lasting glory, I will seek His Kingdom first

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

~Matthew 6:33