Jesus is our glory

SUMMARY: Glorifying God should be the most important desire of a committed Christian. This means living a lifestyle that reflects the life of Christ and making the message of the Good News attractive to the world through our testimony. The shepherds of Bethlehem were the first evangelists to spread the good news of the birth of Jesus Christ. They left everything to share the news with the world. As Christians, we are trustees of the glory of God and should strive to give Him glory in everything we do. This Christmas, let us be evangelists like the shepherds of Bethlehem and give glory to God as heralds of the Good News.

Glorifying God is our life purpose and should be the most zealous desire of the heart of the committed Christian who wants to please him. Expressing Glory to God with your lips does not necessarily glorify the Lord. If God is God and his essence is the fullness of all things, why does he need us to give him glory? How can your children, from our perspective of dream holiness, add glory to the Lord of Glory? Yes, everything that breathes - including us - must give glory to God. The Word is full of proposals and teachings for ordinary man on the multiple ways to give glory to God and his Son Jesus Christ, to content the Spirit that dwells in you and in me so that God may be glorified in everything.

Glorifying God means focusing on a lifestyle that flows from within us as an expression of the life of Christ reflected in our actions. It is making the message of the Good News attractive to the world through our testimony. When we remain in Christ and rest in Him, the same thing can happen to us that happened to those shepherds of the first Christmas, who were visited by the angels of God and received first-hand the news of the birth of our Savior and heard them say “¡¡ Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace, good will towards men ”. God's good will was revealed from on high by sending Jesus for the salvation and redemption of mankind and let us live in peace. That is why Christ is our glory. The shepherds, symbols of the humility and poverty of this world, made known everywhere the news of the birth of the Savior. Until today and until Christ comes, this will continue to be the best news in history, the most glorious.

The shepherds of Bethlehem were the first evangelists to glorify and praise God by spreading the good news of the one who had been born as a fulfillment of the promise. They left their herds - the most precious thing for them - and ran, “hurried out” to tell the world what had happened. They abandoned their wealth, their livelihood, their humble pastoral vocation and "ran." "Has not God chosen the poor of this world, to be rich in faith and heirs to the kingdom he has promised?" (James 2: 5).

The angels announced the birth of Christ to some simple and poor shepherds who saw the glory of God. He, who is omniscient and knows the human heart, saw in the humility and simplicity of those shepherds a deposit of good faith. What would have happened if God had manifested himself to the religious in eminence of that time? Would they have left their fortunes and run to tell the good news of a Savior?


As Christians we are trustees of the glory of God. We see his glory in the transformed soul of the one who, repentant of his sins, turns his face to God, we see his glory in the body of Christ that is consecrated to working with God to transform lives in Christ, we see his glory when we cast off evil and we we offer to do good moved by our saving faith. This Christmas, let us be evangelists like the shepherds of Bethlehem. Let us give glory to God as the heralding angels of the Good News. As the world collapses, we are privileged to continue building with the hands of the King of Glory, a better place to rest and honor those who live forever.

God bless you!