If you think an act by an person was so well executed that it may have been blessed by God, could it be so that the person asked God to bless the act so as to bring glory to God’s name? Does this mean then, that if the act touches your life, and at any point you have thought that the act was of God, then glory has been brought to His name completing the circle? It appears to follow that the glory was God’s to receive after all and that you were meant to understand it as an act of God, even if this understanding came years later.
This happened to me in a simple way. Last year, my mother and I traveled to North Carolina to visit my grandparents. One morning I awoke with a headache that threatened to stick around. I sat at the kitchen table, drinking coffee and holding my head, hoping that this would alleviate the pain. My grandmother was sitting across from me and noticed that I had a headache. She walked to my side and got behind me. She began to massage the back of my neck. With very little effort, putting an upward traveling pressure from the middle of my neck to the base of my skull, the pain began to subside. The massage only lasted a minute or so, but the damage done to my headache was already apparent. I knew that the headache would disappear in a short period of time. It did just that.
It has been almost exactly a year. Here I sit in bed experiencing another headache. It has made me remember the wondrous relief my head experienced under the soft, spongy hands of my grandmother.
This memory brought on the thoughts I laid out above in the first paragraph. I wondered if my grandmother had perhaps once asked if God would use her to bring glory to His name in all that she does. She is a Godly woman, so this scenario is not unlikely. I realized, as I wondered about this, that in attributing my relief to God’s works, glory was brought to his name. Does this perhaps mean that I was, after all, meant to remember this one year later and offer recognition to the glory of God, and that thereby glory would be brought to his name? I do not know the answer. Yet glory has been brought to His name through this memory. A provoking thought.
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