-GLORIFYING
GOD IN LIFE
AND IN DEATH

John 21:12-19
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This [Jesus] spoke,
signifying by what
death he would
glorify God.
--John 21:19
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IT seems we most often think about how we can glorify God through our lives when we are active and strong. But I wonder if we should also consider how we might glorify God through our death.

After Peter denied Jesus three times (John 18:15-27), the Lord gave him an opportunity to reaffirm his love (21:15-17). Three times, Jesus asked, "Peter, do you love Me?" Then in a surprising change of subject, Jesus said: "'When you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish.' This He spoke, signifying by what death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him, 'Follow Me'" (vv.18-19). Jesus told Peter that by an unchosen way of dying he would glorify God.

Paul said that it was his "earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death" (Phil. 1:20).

We can bring honor and glory to God as we live--and as we die.
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-You are one of a kind---
designed to glorify God as only you can.

-ODB/DM