Living for the Glory of God
Be your hearts young and green, or scarred and withered, lay them at a Saviour’s feet. Let his glory be your glorious aim! Raised far above the common objects and base pursuits of the world, this is an end worth living for. A life such as that, elevating and ennobling the humblest lot, shall command the regards, and fix on man the gaze of angels. Lofty ends give dignity to the lowest officers. He who lives for the glory of God has an end in view which lends dignity to the man and to his life. Bring common wire into proper contact with the magnet, and it will borrow the strange, attractive virtue, and become itself magnetic. The merest crystal fragment that has been flung out into the field and trampled on the ground, shines like a diamond, when sunbeams stoop to kiss it. And who has not seen the dullest rain-cloud, when it turned its face to the sun, change into glory, and, in the bow that spans it, present to the eyes of age and infancy, alike of the philosopher who studies, and of the simple, joyous child who runs to catch it, the most brilliant and beautiful phenomenon in nature? Thus, from what they look at and come in contact with, common things acquire uncommon glory. —Church Union.