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The Narcissistic God? Part 5 / 5
#5 Who is narcissistic?
A final test.
What does a scientist, a historian, a plumber, a businessman, a teacher, an educating mom, an accountant, an economist, an attorney, or a custodian in a hospital have to do with fulfilling the great commands of God?
Everything.
The scientist as a scientist AND as a disciplemaker - neither one seen as in contrast or as a struggle to the other - is the complete response to God’s command.
All true believers in Christ must do their work to the glory of God with the appropriate skill to understand what that means in their profession. John the Baptist gave the group of tax collectors and the band of soldiers specific instructions on how each was to demonstrate they understood the complete claims of the Messiah in the activities that shaped their professions.
Could you write down a short list the key issues that shape whether or not you are doing all to the glory of God with skill and understanding in your daily work? Try it! It is a great way to start!
Then witnessing and making disciples (followers) of Jesus is an expression of this true spirituality, and not a short-term strategy that plays out in a few generations to be left only to the “pros” to figure out and do.
What may seem too slow in some ways, is not. First, obedience to God’s commands is never optional. Secondly, when others no longer see that God is a part of every aspect of a “Christians” life - it merely becomes an “us versus them” moral battle in culture.
So lift up the true and living God, the one by whom grace and truth came into our existence to transform us, in our total being in our total daily existence.
God is not narcissistic - we are - too easily.
Obeying the Lord to actually do all to the glory of God is to get beyond self-focus and the way for others to see God.
Soli Deo Gloria
Solus Christus
