Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His Name
Psalm 29:2
God's glory is the result of His nature and His acts.
He is glorious in His character, for there is such a store of everything that is holy and good and lovely in God that He must be glorious.
The actions that flow from His character are also glorious; but while He intends that they should display to His creatures His goodness and mercy and justice, He is equally concerned that the glory associated with them should be given only to Himself.
... what we do we have that we did not receive from the God of all grace?
Then how carefully we ought to walk humbly before the LORD!
The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.
Shall an insect that's been around for only an hour glorify itself against the sun that warmed it into life?
Shall the clay pot exalt itself above the man who fashioned it upon the wheel?
Shall the dust of the desert strive with the whirlwind?
Or the drops of the ocean struggle with the storm?
Give to the LORD, all you righteous, give to the Lord glory and strength; give to Him the honor that is due His name.
It is, perhaps, the hardest struggle of Christian life to learn this sentence: Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory.
It is a lesson God is always teaching, and teaching us sometimes by the most painful discipline.
Let a Christian begin to boast, "I can do all things" without adding "through Christ who strengthens me," and before long he will groan, "I can do nothing," and bemoan himself in the dust.
When we do anything for the Lord, and He is pleased to accept our doings, let us lay our crown at His feet and exclaim, Not I but the grace of God that is with Me.
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory,
because of your love and faithfulness.
Psalm 115:1
I can do all things
through Christ who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13
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