Comments on: Rebelutionaries Can Waste Their Lives

By: Nubia Allbright

Nubia Allbright — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:46:02 +0000

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By: MorganKay

MorganKay — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:08:31 +0000

Wow you have a good point! I never thought about that.

By: Stella

Stella — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:49:17 +0000

Yes we should do it all for God’s glory. But I’ve found that a big hindrance to doing it all for God’s glory is the blindness of just doing it all for God’s glory. So much so that I’ve felt times in my life that ministry, obeying God, and all that has no joy. Just that I’m not doing “wrong things”. It’s really different if you know WHY you want to glorify God. If we know the real value of what Jesus Christ did for us and truly understand (not just superficially) what such a great God has done for us, giving God all the glory will be an overflow of response from grateful and joy-filled hearts. If we say that we’re all doing it for God’s glory, won’t we burn out if that phrase becomes an everyday phrase and somewhat seem to lose it’s value? Unless you personally know why you (not us in general) but personally you, why you want to glorify God.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:49:39 +0000

I totally agree with this subject, Katie. It’s been something I’ve been thinking about for a while myself.

By: Bernadine

Bernadine — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:22:50 +0000

I am currently raeding the book and at first I feel really motivated to do hard things but then when school started and things started to pile up one after another, I’m starting to have doubts that I can do anything at all. You see, I’m not really a person who is into sprts or active stuff and all. In fact, everything that I belive I;m good in somehow seems to pull me down because I would always feel insecure from those who are better than I am. I do feel really motivated by the book and I keep on telling myself to just trust god in whatever He has planned for me, hard or easy. Every teenager experiences a lot of hard things because of always wanting more and I can say that it is my problem at the moment but i guess my hard thing that I have to do at this point is to not want everything I like and envy. It may seem like not a hard thing to do for a lot but for me it’s really something that I have to put a big effort on making it a hard thing for me.

To live is to glorify God, not yourself.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:16:48 +0000

I just got back from a week long missions trip here in my hometown and the book we read this week was Do Hard Things. I haven’t finished it yet, but already I want to do something to change the world for Christ. This is a good reminder to do hard things not to glorify ourselves, but God. It’s all about God. Thanks for writing this Katie!

By: Victoria

Victoria — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:55:40 +0000

Finding this blog was so timely! I had a conversation with my mom just a few hours ago about this very topic. I commented that I wished that God had given me some more visible “hard things” to do. I immediately followed that comment with the idea that the things that seem so ordinary to me are still important to the Kingdom. This blog expressed perfectly how I’m feeling and what I needed to hear. Thanks, Katie!

By: Elaine M.

Elaine M. — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:40:04 +0000

Thanks for the encoragement and great insite!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:37:06 +0000

I’ve been asking God to help me to glorify him in everything I do for the past few months, but I was never quite sure what glorifying him actually meant.

I’ve literally just finished reading Do Hard Things and have come straight on here and read your post - I can’t help feeling that God is telling me not to waste what I’ve just learned!

Thank you for helping me to understand what glorifying God really is - and I thank him for answering my prayer. I hope that we can all learn how to glorify God in our everyday lives, and to learn to live for him by allowing his light to shine through us.

By: kiley h.

kiley h. — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:59:24 +0000

awesome post! i totally agree-God needs to be our all consuming passion, and our number one purpose. when i focus on HIM, i feel peace and assurance-whereas when i focus on myself or even the ‘hard things’ i do, i feel disappointment and even discontentment. when i ‘do the hard things’ HE puts on my heart, i experience the overwhelming joy of being in his will i feel that i can truly fulfull the calling of being a true rebelutionary for Christ!!