(I originally published this on Substack, but I’m done with Substack. I’m touching up old posts from there, and publishing secondary editions here.)

The Immeasurable Honor of God. The incessant honor we owe to our Creator.

Think about this.

He gave us souls and bodies. He made it possible to experience His Creation. He will continue to make this possible for the rest of our days, on Earth, and into Eternity.

He made you, others, plants, animals, waters, earth, moons, suns, stars, galaxies, and beyond. All dimensions of space-time are his domain. All dimensions beyond space-time are his domain. There is nothing not within his domain.

He gave us minds, made in his likeness, which allow us to consider the awesome complexity of His mind, and the awesome complexity of His Creation in which He put us, and His Creation’s natural laws, and much more.

But we can never fully understand His Creation. We can never fully understand the Creator’s mind. All around us are miracles that can only exist with a God so glorious.

Indeed, the heavens declare the glory of God. So do all things under heaven – and this includes mankind. Why wouldn’t all things whose sources are inexplicable but through miracles declare God’s Glory? I say they do.

Truly, I am perplexed as to how I should render the proper honor and glory unto the highest being. After 49 years I feel I should be able to say more on the subject. Unfortunately, words fail me.

However, some things I do know…

Right now I owe him gratitude from my deepest core for merely being alive.

I know… 

That I could have never existed; 

That I could have never experienced life’s highs and joys; 

That I could have never known love and the highest virtues granted unto me my entire life;

That I could never have been filled with a faith that will sustain me through the darkest times, even unto death;

That I could have never seen His goodness shining so brightly which makes me know after death there is an eternal realm where pain ceases.

For such things I am eternally grateful.

Yet, words still fail me. More can and should be said. It is impossible to praise sufficiently the Creator of All.

Well, some more things I do know. For the rest of my days I must…

Seek his will and surrender myself to it;

And sacrifice my ego and indulgence in sin to my utmost power; 

And speak of this surrender to as many as possible, so they may surrender too;

And conjure the sincerest praise and gratitude for Salvation of my soul;

And carry my cross even through the Valley of the Shadow of Death for others to spend an eternity with Christ.

This is the best my limited mind can conceive of properly glorifying God. He undoubtedly deserves more. 

But I pray more words come, and thus understanding, and maybe wisdom.