What does it mean to glorify God?

In this video, Brian Borgman delves into the concept of glorifying God and highlights two interconnected aspects: being and doing. To glorify God as individuals, we need to understand and embrace who God has created us to be and fulfill the roles and responsibilities assigned to us. Recognizing the created order established by God is essential in reflecting His glory. By living according to His design, we acknowledge His wisdom and honor His created order.

He emphasizes the significance of recognizing God's revelation concerning manhood, husbandhood, and fatherhood. Fulfilling these roles in accordance with God's guidance reflects back to Him His glory. However, when individuals reject or rebel against God's created order, they diminish His glory. Examples such as transgenderism and homosexuality are cited as instances where the fundamental structures established by God are inverted or distorted. By defying these structures, individuals hinder their ability to glorify God and fail to reflect His intended design.

Psalm 19:1 (NKJV) -- "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork."  

First of all, we have to talk about what it means to actually glorify God. There's no way that we contribute to God's glory. There's no way that we add to God's glory. But When we talk about glorifying God, what we're talking about is reflecting back to God that intrinsic glory that belongs to Him. So how do we do that?

I think that we do that in basically two related ways. One is being and the other is doing. So what we are and what we do. And so if I'm going to glorify God as a man then I need to be who God made me to be as a man and then I need to do what God calls me to do as a man. And so if I'm going to glorify God in manhood, then I recognize first of all that as a man, God has a created order.

And I can't glorify God as a man if I don't first recognize that created order. And then God's given us further revelation about what it means to be a man, what it means to be a husband, what it means to be a father. And so one of the ways that I reflect glory back to God or glorify God is that I recognize how He's made me and I fulfill the requirements of being a man and in so doing that reflects back to God His glory. It reflects His wisdom. It reflects his created order.

And so in our culture, we have to understand that we rob God of glory when we ignore or when we even rebel against His created order. And so transgenderism, for instance, would be in a sense robbing God of glory because the person is basically saying, God made me this way, but I choose to be that way. And that's a fundamental rebellion against God's created order. You could say the same thing, by the way, about homosexuality or anything that sort of inverts or distorts God's created order. At that point, it becomes impossible to glorify God because you're not even reflecting back to Him the most basic structures that He's put into place by virtue of creation.

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