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Tuesday, October the 14th, 2008 under
cloudy skies, light drizzle, wind from the
East at four mph, with the temperature at

seventy-four degrees.

Elder George Walker (Dec)

"That, according as it is written, He that glorieth,
let him glory in the Lord." (1st Corinthians 1:31)

No matter how small in physical stature a person might be he loves to glory in
self. If it is not self, he will pick out someone or something to glory in. It might

be all the possessions that he owns, it might be his wealth, his house or his car,

but man will glory and take glory upon himself. Paul says, "He that glorieth, let
him glory in the Lord." The religious world today say that they glory in the

Lord, but do they? We say that we glory in the Lord but do we? There seems to
be a side of man from a natural standpoint that desires to glory in himself. Look

what I have done. Look at all the good that I have done for others. Look at the

vanity of man as he tries to steal glory from God. Preachers of the world try to
take the glory of saving a person knowing all the time that salvation is of the

Lord. Well maybe I did not really save him, but God used me to get the job

done. Vanity, vanity, saith the preacher, all is vanity. When we think we can
help God do his work, we are then putting ourselves on the same level with God.

Man has nothing of himself that deserves any glory, we are still at our best, un-

worthy and undone sinners but for the grace of God. It is God that creates, it is
God that spoke the world into being and it is God and God alone that keeps and

preserves his creation. Everything that we have or will ever have comes down
from God channeled down through his Son Jesus Christ.