All is For Your Glory

Over 10 years ago I was in São Paulo, Brazil at a conference. We hadn’t moved there to Brazil yet, in fact, I didn’t even know that was on the table at this point.

I stood in the back of the sanctuary while the worship team from IHOPKC led. When I'm at a conference, I like to check out all the vantage points in the room.

The worship leader was singing a song called All is For Your Glory. You may be familiar with it, or you may not. It’s a song written by Lisa Gotshall forever ago that is, well, amazing. Whether I like to admit it or not, some amazing songs came out of IHOPKC.

I stood there in that dark room and sang that song with all my heart. Tears streamed down my 12-years-old face as I sang the tag:

“Put me anywhere

Just put your glory in me

I'll serve anywhere

Just let me see your beauty”

Little did I know that only a few days later would my parents be talking to my siblings and me about moving to Brazil.

My 12-year-old self sang those words with total sincerity. It’s almost like my spirit knew the gravity of what I was singing. The Lord saw my heart and took my cry seriously. I was a kid, but I didn’t have a “mini Holy Spirit” in me. For that split moment at the back of that room, I knew what I was saying to the Lord.

I’ll go anywhere. I’ll do anything. I just want You.

So He sent my family and me to Brazil. And He gave me Himself.

This song has always had a special place in my heart. It was the pinnacle of what I wanted my devotion to Jesus to be.

I used to think that I had to be in a prayer room to really give God my all, or at least do missions. That was what God wanted from me.

But I’ve grown a lot since then.

My life can, and should, glorify God in whatever I do. Wherever I go, whatever I do the call is the same: glorify God.

I’ve realized this more in the past few years than ever. The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. My location or job doesn’t change that directive.

That song still really touches my heart, even though it came out of IHOPKC, and people I don’t really like right now used to sing it all the time. It doesn’t negate the biblical truths in the song.

So as I work my day job at Blanc Media building web pages, all is for Your glory.

As I write my Substack, all is for Your glory.

As I book bind my cares away, all is for Your glory.

As I study the book of Job, all is for Your glory.

As I sit in church, all is for Your Glory.

Let my heart, my speech, my countenance always be for the glory of God. Let everything I do be for Him, even the “boring” stuff.

I feel the fear of the Lord when I sing that tag now. I know what it costs, I know how seriously the Lord takes my songs and prayers. But I sing it just the same.

All is for Your glory.

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