What does it mean to glorify God or to bless God?

April 13, 2020

Good morning!  I hope you all had a blessed Easter and were able to think about the great gift Jesus gave us at the resurrection!

I have been reading through the Psalms.  As I read I noticed often that we are to glorify God and bless Him.  This is what I found as I searched out what that means.

What does it mean to glorify God?
It does not mean to make Him more glorious.  It means to acknowledge His glory, to value it about all things, and to make it known.   Deep within us we all know that it is our duty to glorify our Maker by thanking Him for all we have, trusting Him for all we need, and obeying all of his revealed will to us.  (John Piper)

God is glorified when we bless and praise and acknowledge Him.  (gotquestions.org)

ACKNOWLEDGE - VALUE - TELL - THANK - TRUST - OBEY - BLESS - PRAISE = GLORIFYING GOD

What does it mean to bless God?
To bless God it means to praise Him, exalt Him, and worship Him.  We offer God our praise and blessings because He deserves them.  Our blessing God is done out of an understanding that He is the true praiseworthy Creator and Heavenly Father.  (gotquestions.org)

As a side note, the gotquestions.org is a great site to go to if you want to learn about about God or the Bible or questions about life.