"...to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever, Amen." Jude 25Keddie's thoughts: "Jude asks for God's eternal glory to be revealed in all the fullness of his wisdom and saving grace. If God glorifies himself in these, then his believing people will also come to glory through his Son who died for them on that awful cross. To pray for his glory is to pray for his enabling grace and, with his answer, to receive the assurance that we will be kept from stumbling and brought holy so as to glory in his presence. In the modern Christian obsession with prayer requests - that too often are concerned with our comfort - we too easily forget that the highest prayer of all is for God to glorify his own name. We forget that his glory is the guarantee of our own. His glory is in fact our highest goal. It ought therefore to be our greatest joy and the very center of our every prayer."
Candy's thoughts: I just love the idea that God's "glory is the guarantee of our own." We are seeking the good of the One who is entirely committed to our best future state. We could never come up with a better plan for ourselves than the one which He has for His own glory.
*Taken from Gordon Keddie's book entitled Prayers of the Bible. See previous posts for image of the book cover.
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