When I go to Olive Garden, I usually start out with the gnocchi soup. The soup is pretty good, but the best thing about it: FREE REFILLS! I can eat as many bowls of soup as I want. I usually get one for an appetizer and one To Go. I almost always order the tortellini. I don't know what they fill those little pasta squares with, but it's goooooooood! And then the mints. Those wonderful brown and green candies. I once had a waitress give me a whole To Go bag full of those mints! I gave a very good tip that day.
I Corinthians 10:31 says "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."
When I go to Olive Garden, it is easy to eat to the glory of God. I am happy to give God the glory while I'm eating.
"Praise God for these melt-in-your-mouth breadsticks!"
"Thank God for Olive Garden!"
"Hallelujah, that's good!"
It is easy to give God the glory while eating. Somethings, however, are not so easy for me to give God glory for:
1. Shopping: I hate the crowds, and my wife takes 20 minutes to decide blue or light blue.
2. Sitting in line forever at a fast-food restaurant. I'm there because I want fast food.
3. Driving during rush hour. People don't know how to drive.
4. Being sick: I hate being sick!
But according to the verse we just read, we are to honor God in everything we do!
That must have been hard for Joseph. Joseph was hated by his brothers, sold into slavery by his brothers, falsely accused when he chose to do right, thrown in prison for something he didn't do, and was forgotten about for another two years after helping out the king's butler. But even going through all of that, Joseph still honored God.
Attitude
Joseph's attitude toward everything that he went through was this: God is in control! During each phase of Joseph's life, he brought glory to God. It's easy to honor and glorify God when everything is going good, and when we're on the mountain tops of life. But God wants glory in those valleys too. That's the whole reason we were created.
Revelation 4:11 says "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created."
We were created to bring honor and glory to God. Joseph went through so much more than we could probably imagine, and he still gave God the glory. So next time you're eating at a nice restaurant: Give God the Glory! and next time you're sick, or you've been sitting in the drive through for 20 minutes: Give God the Glory!
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