Revelation 4:11 · World English Bible
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
Every made thing is here answered back to its Maker, praise returning to the one it came from like a stream flowing home to the sea. The heart's quiet theft is to keep the honor for itself, to stand admiring its own reflection as if the glass had made the face.
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Every made thing is here answered back to its Maker, praise returning to the one it came from like a stream flowing home to the sea. The heart's quiet theft is to keep the honor for itself, to stand admiring its own reflection as if the glass had made the face.
The cure is to hand the credit back where it belongs, plainly and often. All things exist because He wanted them to; the wanting is the light, and each creature is only a place where that longing became visible.
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Whose light have you been quietly billing as your own?
Do the work that is yours and let go of your grip on the results. The doing is yours to offer, the harvest was never your property.
The way gives life to everything and claims none of it as an achievement. Because it takes no credit, nothing it makes is diminished by being given away.
Nothing you hold is owned, only lent, your body, your talents, the people you love. Treat them as a traveler treats a borrowed room, with care and without the fiction of possession.
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