32. Will be given to Him

32. Will be given to Him

Whatever the holy God of heaven and earth may regard necessary to his honour, they are available for it. If on this journey his honour would demand that the birth moment of a Vow People will also be the death moment of that people, then “we die to the honour of the Lord.” (Romans 14:8)

If He prefers that such a birth struggle will be the beginning of millennium long people’s existence in a never-ending struggle with the powers of darkness, then “we live to the honour of the Lord”(Romans 14:8) “ . . . whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s” (Romans 14:8)

Whether it will now be life or death, we go to meet it in any case with the triumphant knowledge of being “more than conquerors” because we are “persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our `Lord” (Romans 8:37 to 38)

The result of it will in any case be triumph, a triumph achieved in the face of the powers of darkness; a triumph of which “the glory and the honour will be given to Him.”

If it may be life, that soli deo gloria will then be the characteristic stamp of our total different kind of life as people between the peoples on earth. That will determine our distinguishing identity as opposed to them all; in our relation with other peoples, in our politics, our economy, our social life, the education of our youth, our industry, our labour relations, our academic work, our public and personal honesty and morality, our Sunday legislation, our arts practice, entertainment and sport.
Every single aspect of our total life as people will attribute that the glory and honour of the triumph obtained here, and which opened the road for our continued existence as people, will be given to Him.