Aug 9, 2026 · 42 min · 8 segments
God will not share His glory with another! In other words, He’s a jealous God. So many times, in the Scriptures, we see those who tried to get God on their side, to fight for their cause. But guess…
Mark SpanselHost
It does two things when we think about the glory of God as the motivating factor for who God is and who we are, and it makes our joy, it makes our life something so much bigger than anything we can conjure up in ourselves.
It makes our joy something that's rooted and grounded on that which is unchanging.
It makes our joy a, what I would call, and we'll talk about next week, a glory-centered joy.
And this morning, then, as we talk about God and his greatest joy found in his own glory, we talk about a God-centered God.
To help us see and to help us understand the God of glory who does what he does for his own glory.
To take this central theme of scripture and bring it into focus, to take what really and admittedly is an abstract theological concept and try to put feet on it so that you and I can see and embrace the God who is glorious over all.
Of course, I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, but Paul simply said in his first letter to the Corinthians, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, Or go to work or go to school or play golf or softball or eat dinner or go on a trip.
Well, what does that mean and how do we do that? And it starts with understanding the heart of God for his own glory.
Now, before I go to the key text that I've had you turn to here in Isaiah 48, I just want to make one more observation from experience, personally and pastorally.
If I had to summarize what drives us as a people, mankind, I would say it's one of two things that drive us day by day.
It's either that we live in a mundane world where we're just sort of trying to get through.
And as much as you can see the beauty around you when you head to the beach or you go to the mountains, you feel it day in and day out.
And if we're not careful, we're just simply sort of living in the mundane, right? And we're not able to see the greater picture, the reason for which God has saved us, created us, called us to himself.
Or in an effort to push against the mundane, we try to make too much of the material.
It does two things when we think about the glory of God as the motivating factor for who God is and who we are, and it makes our joy, it makes our life something so much bigger than anything we can conjure up in ourselves.
It makes our joy something that's rooted and grounded on that which is unchanging.
It makes our joy a, what I would call, and we'll talk about next week, a glory-centered joy.
And this morning, then, as we talk about God and his greatest joy found in his own glory, we talk about a God-centered God.
To help us see and to help us understand the God of glory who does what he does for his own glory.
To take this central theme of scripture and bring it into focus, to take what really and admittedly is an abstract theological concept and try to put feet on it so that you and I can see and embrace the God who is glorious over all.
Of course, I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, but Paul simply said in his first letter to the Corinthians, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, Or go to work or go to school or play golf or softball or eat dinner or go on a trip.
Well, what does that mean and how do we do that? And it starts with understanding the heart of God for his own glory.
Now, before I go to the key text that I've had you turn to here in Isaiah 48, I just want to make one more observation from experience, personally and pastorally.
If I had to summarize what drives us as a people, mankind, I would say it's one of two things that drive us day by day.
It's either that we live in a mundane world where we're just sort of trying to get through.
And as much as you can see the beauty around you when you head to the beach or you go to the mountains, you feel it day in and day out.
And if we're not careful, we're just simply sort of living in the mundane, right? And we're not able to see the greater picture, the reason for which God has saved us, created us, called us to himself.
Or in an effort to push against the mundane, we try to make too much of the material.
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