Your Life, His Glory

From him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Roman 11:36 (NIV)

Sometimes we look at the painful or difficult circumstances in life and we wonder why.

Why, God, have you made my life this way? Am I being punished for some sort of sin in my life?

When I think of the man who was born blind, and Jesus’s disciples assumed it was the result of his sin or his parents’ sin, I remember that Jesus’s answer reveals an important truth for our lives as well. Jesus said that the man was born blind so that the glory of God could be revealed in His life—and then Jesus healed the man.

Here’s the truth that we should meditate on: Sometimes you are made to go through things because it really isn’t about you—apart from the fact that God chose to use you to demonstrate something He wants to show or to say something He wants to communicate.  

Faith adds this additional reality: that your whole life is really for the glory of God.

Many times, the thing you are going through in life is not a judgment because you did something wrong. Like the man born blind, God doesn’t see you as the world sees you.

• You aren’t twisted or an outcast.
• You aren’t incapable or insufficient.
• You aren’t minimized or non-essential.
• You aren’t cursed or left out of God's goodness.

You are just being positioned to show people that God can work a miracle and that God can turn conditions around, defying all human explanations.

Maybe your circumstances aren’t about you. Maybe they are about showing the world His glory.