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Soli Deo Gloria

Bruce Hill

I read something from Mark Batterson book “All IN” that was interesting, and I would like to share with you.

He spoke of Johann Sebastian Bach the classical musical musician. Bach’s music did not begin as music, Batterson suggest that they were prayers before they were songs. Before Bach started scoring a sheet of music, he would scrawl J.J.- Jesu, juva- at the very top. It was the simplest of prayers: Jesus, help me.

Then, at the end completion of every composition, inscribed three letters in the margin of his music: SDG. These three stood for the Latin phrase, Soli Deo Gloria-to the glory of God alone.

Soli Deo Gloria was one of the rallying cries of the Protestant Reformation, but Bach personalized it. His life was a unique translation of that singular motive. So is yours. No one can glorify God like you or for you. Your life is an original score.

Batterson went on to say what kind of cultural impact would we have if our scripts, bills and other plans originated as prayers? Image students scribbling SDG on their essays, mechanics etching SDG on mufflers and motors, doctors scrawling SDG on their prescriptions.

It’s not about what you do.

It’s about why you do what you do.

Ultimately, it’s about who you do it for.

SDG is living for an audience of one. It’s doing the right thing for the right reason. It’s living for the applause of nail-scarred hands. You go all in and all out because Jesus Christ is your All in All.

Just Jesus.

Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.

Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.


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