God withholds glory to others because of His love

"I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols" Isaiah 42:8

When we read this verse with human eyes and with our sinful hearts, we may think that God is being proud, or that He is a megalomaniac, saying that He will not share His glory with no other.

But such thoughts are blasphemy and Satanic, on multiple levels. I'll explain why.

The main reason is that, the reason why God does not give His glory to no other, that is, to creatures, is because God is LOVE. It is because He is loving to His creation that He does not give glory to them, and has it for himself. But why is this?

God the Creator alone is NATURALLY the one who alone deserves all the glory and honour. Why? Simply because He is the Creator, the Origin of all things that are existing. Everything owes its existence to Him. Nothing would never "be", if the great I AM THAT I AM called them into existence by His very command. He is the one who made all things, sustains all things, gives all things life and their beauty.

And glory and honour or WORSHIP must be preserved for the Creator alone. This is because only GOD can "handle" praise, glory, honour, worship and thanksgiving. Give praise, glory, honour and worship to a human being, and what happens? That person becomes proud, detestable and vile.The way to destroy a person is to praise him to death. Human beings don't know what to do with glory! They cannot handle it. It is like asking a child to handle a poisonous serpent. Human beings were not designed for glory.

This is why, God, in HIS LOVE, says, "I will give my glory to no other". He doesn't want to see his poor creatures destroyed with something they can't handle. This is perhaps then why famous people are often humbled with failures and disasters. It's all part of God's love. 

It was the devil, the ex-angel, that took to himself glory, as though he can handle it. But it killed him. It made him an eternal slave to sin and condemnation. 

Let us therefore thank God, and dare not to touch His glory. If we are to glory, let us glory in the Cross of Jesus Christ, upon which our dear Saviour became a laughingstock, so that we may have His glory, humbly, through an appreciation of His death. Blessed me to God our saviour.

Jesus' eternal scars

Though Jesus never went to hell to be punished for our sins, but instead, Jesus FOREVER retains the scars on His hands, feet and side. He is FOREVER considered to the "Lamb that was slain".

Jesus retained ETERNAL SCARS, FOR YOU!!! Don't turn away from Him when He calls you! FOREVER appreciate Him for what He has done to save you from ETERNAL HELL!!

Praised be the the Lamb that was slain.

Jesus was judged first before you

Pilate sits down on the judgment seat and judges and condemned the one who has been appointed the Judge of the universe.

Yet we know that this was the judgment of God upon Jesus. We know that it was God who had given Pilate the authority to crucify Jesus and deliver Him over to death, for our sins, so that whoever will believe in Jesus will not perish but have everlasting life:

So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha. Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. (John 19:13-16 ESV)

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
(Revelation 20:11-15 ESV)

Jesus' only crime

Jesus' only crime was that He spoke the truth. It was worthy of death in this deceived, dark world:

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.”
(John 19:7 ESV)


Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth.

Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
(John 18:37 ESV)

Let him become a fool

Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
(Jeremiah 44:8 ESV)

Nothing angers God more than this sin: making false gods and worshiping false gods. Sure, God is angry at our other sins: lying, stealing, hating, lusting, etc.

But nothing made God angry more againsst Judah than their making of their own religions and worshiping their own ideas of God. This was the primary reason that they were thrust out of the Promised Land.

Are we also provoking God to wrath? Do we also make our own versions of Christianity and our own images and ideas of Jesus Christ and God and worship them? Then let it be known to us that God is ANGRY with this more than any other sin. YOU SHALL NOT HAVE ANY OTHER GODS BEFORE ME. YOU SHALL NOT MAKE IMAGES. These are the top two commandments of His Holy Law.

God hates nothing more than our presumption of who God is. To say, "I know God!" while not knowing Him at all, and worshiping instead a selfish representation of the God of the universe, is the greatest sin a man can commit against Him.

The Jews thought they knew Jesus. The Jews thought that Jesus was just a poor carpenter from Nazareth saying some crazy things they didn't like. They thought they "saw" Jesus. So Jesus gave them this terrible warning:

Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
(John 9:39-41 ESV)

See what Jesus is saying:  "Now that you say, 'We see', your guilt remains." If we act like we "see" God and Jesus Christ. If we THINK we know Him, just because we have made for ourselves images of God, whoever we THINK He is, then this is also what Jesus says to us: YOUR GUILT REMAINS.

What shall we do then? We must become fools. We must admit our lack of knowledge of Him! We must say with the blind man: "I don't know" (John 9:12)! As it is written:

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
(1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV)

Once we humble ourselves, and get rid of all our idols, our ideas of who we think God is, and submit ourselves under the Scripture, and pray to God to reveal Himself to us, then shall our eyes shall be opened, and we shall see Him as He is.

And then we shall truly worship Him, just as the once-blind-but-now-seeing man began to worship Him in spirit and TRUTH:

Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.” He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
(John 9:35-38 ESV)