“My Glory will I not share with another.” Isaiah 42:8
Have you been called to serve
Where others tried and failed.
But with God’s help and strength
YOUR efforts have prevailed?
Touch not the glory.
Has God appointed you
To some great and noble cause?
Or put you where you hear
The sound of men’s applause?
Touch not the glory.
Have you some special gift?
Some riches you can share?
Or have you learned the art
Of intercessory prayers?
Touch not the glory.
A watching world still waits
To see what can be done
Through one who touches not
That which is God’s alone.
Touch not the glory!
Author unknown.
Make God the peculiar object of your praises. The doctrine [of election] shows what great reason you have so to do. If God so values you, sets so much by you, has bestowed greater mercies upon you than on all the ungodly in the world, is it too little a requital for you to make God the peculiar object of your praise and thankfulness? If God so distinguishes you with His mercies, you ought to distinguish yourself in His praises. You should make it your great care and study how to glorify that God who has been so peculiarly merciful to you. And this, rather, because there was nothing peculiar in you differing from any other person that moved God thus to deal thus peculiarly by you: you were as unworthy to be set by as thousands of others that are not regarded of God, and are cast away by Him forever.
Jonathan Edwards