Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Lord, Be Glorified Theme of the Week: Praise the Lord! Monday, November 18, 2002
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November/December 200256Lord, Be GlorifiedTheme of the Week: Praise the Lord! Lord, Be Glorified Theme of the Week: Praise the Lord! Monday, November 18
Key Bible Verse: Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do, you must do all for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). Bonus Reading:1 Peter 4:10–11
Back in 1977, Bob Kilpatrick and his wife, Cindy, had just begun their full-time music ministry, singing together as a duo. Because he'd been writing and performing since fourth grade, Bob was aware of his need for public approval. "I hoped, like all songwriters," he says, "that people would like my songs, and wrote with that in mind."
On this particular day, however, Bob was alone in his mother-in-law's living room while the rest of the extended family watched television elsewhere in the home, and his heart was focused on a very specific audience.
"I was sitting [there with] my guitar in my hands and my Bible open on my knees. As I read, I prayed that the Lord would help me write a song that Cindy and I could sing privately as our song of consecration to the ministry that lay before us."
"Lord, Be Glorified" began as it remains—a tender, personal statement to the Father.
"I think, in retrospect," Bob says, "that this lent a certain purity to the song. I was relaxed. I wasn't trying to impress anybody. I was free to write the simplest of melodies coupled with an equally simple prayer."
—Phil Christensen and Shari MacDonald in Our God Reigns
My Response: One way I am learning to praise God personally is …
Thought to Apply: In my life, Lord, be glorified, be glorified. In my life, Lord, be glorified today. —Bob Kilpatrick (lyrics reprinted by permission of author)
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