6th Sunday of Easter

 

Give God the Glory

God gets blamed for everything and credit for nothing.

When things go wrong, people like to blame God.

Why didn’t God do something?

Doesn’t He care?

I thought God loved us?

So God gets blamed for many things

When quite often it is our own fault.

What happened was a result of our own choices.

Sometimes the result of our own personal choice.

Sometimes the result of the choices that humanity makes.

That society and government makes.

But we still like to blame God anyway.

And yet when things go right; when we win; when we succeed.

We often take the credit for it.

And don’t give God the glory.

Jesus was different.

All the miracles He performed.

The thousands He fed;

The dead He raised;

Were all to give glory to His Father.

He gave the glory and all of the credit for all He did to His Father.

Do we go through life looking for our own glory?

Thinking we deserve the credit for whatever we do or accomplish.

After all we worked hard, studied hard; we sacrificed much;

Don’t we deserve some credit.

Yet Who sacrificed more than Jesus;

But He did not seek to glorify Himself but rather everything He did was to glorify His Father and give His Father the credit.

He did this because He said everything He had,

Was given to Him by His Father.

What do we have that was not given to us by God?

Our talent, our gifts; our very life and breath

Are all given to us by God.

And when we use all that God has given us,

We too give glory to God.

And God gets the credit that God deserves.

This is why we say at every Mass,

ALL glory and honor are yours O God almighty Father.