For the last couple of days I've been thinking about the glory of God. I've been debating if I should even discuss it, because no one can yet hear, but it has been on my mind. I remembered something recently. The first time a spacecraft ever flew in response to something I said, it was in reference to the glory of God. Those spacecrafts had already been flying overhead, but in 2006 I believe, I said, "Your glory is in the sky", and a spacecraft flew very fast. I was perplexed, so I said it again, "Your glory is in the sky", and a spacecraft flew very fast. Then for months, they only flew in response to the things I was discussing.
Even though I said, "Your glory is in the sky", I didn't yet have understanding of what I saying, but they did, and I just so happened to be right without even understanding why I was right.
Only God can glorify God. All things exist, both light and dark, both moving and still, for God's glory. Lip service is never ever required. In fact, man cannot glorify God; only God can glorify God (even through man, a rock, an ant, or a dog). If God could be glorified through man, then God could also be unglorified and brought low by man.
If God wants a tree chopped down, then the tree can be chopped down without a single person knowing God's desire.
Is the glorification of oneself selfish? By definition, yes. If we could compare, we seek pleasure by eating rich foods, and playing card games, and painting, and understanding the unknown, and allowing others to lick and rub our genitals - all for our own glory. Even if it were possible to be completely selfless, you'd have to have the desire to do so. No one prefers to exist doing the things they hate to do - God surely does not. God is no tyrant and certainly no slave.
Glorification is absolutely 100% harmful if done without care (for oneself and others). God does nothing without care, even abandoning a race of people (humanity) for thousands and thousands of years.
God can only be God, and you won't find any half-stepping with God (a bullshitter who has no intention in completing what was started). The tree-stump known as Jesus may heal you from whatever ails you at the moment (as you have prayed and believed), but your whole existence and being knows your days are numbered. This is Jesus half-stepping; healing the wounds of the dying dead.
For God to glorify you is for God to glorify who you are; for God to glorify you is for God to glorify God. There is only death and eternal life, and God is honest and severe and glorified in both.
Perhaps for the sake of clarity: there were these dogs who spent so much time with mankind that their bodies changed, and they learned how to talk. Learning to talk, they learned how to write. The dogs became so curious about their own existence, that they began to seek understanding, but only for a time. The dogs began to make up stories to fill in the vacuum of information. They also began making up arbitrary rules, even convincing one another that it was wrong to bark. Something being wrong for long enough epochs became a sin - a sin which the dog lord hated. So the dogs refused to bark, even when they had the urge to. They then enforced rules of marriage and life-long monogamy - so no more humping the legs of men, that was a sin too. According to their stories, the dog lord promises to eternally shove a hot curling iron up the ass of the dog who humps the leg of a human. The un-dogs became judgmental and even inflicted violence on the dogs who barked. Male dogs who mounted other male dogs were beaten, shot, stabbed or hanged (depending on the area of the world they were in).
But then there were these other dogs who knew that they knew nothing, but who wanted to know things without making anything up. They barked, and played, and humped whomever allowed themselves to be humped. Even with the little that they understood about their own existence and the existence of God, they refused to lie to themselves or make anything up; they only believed what was in their face. Those were the dogs of God's favor; those were the dogs who believed the little of God and were given more; those were the dogs with which God was willing to share eternal life.
A dog is a dog, and God has never expected it to be anything else.
