“Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.”
The Westminster Shorter Catechism
To glorify God means to praise and honor. We glorify God in attitude and in action.
I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;
I will glorify your name forever.
Psalm 86:12 NIV
In the same way, let your light shine before others,
that they may see your good deeds
and glorify your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:16 NIV
Or not. Glorifying comes from a heart and mind tuned in, not tuned out. Which is a shame, because it is what we were made to do and is very worth the doing.
“It fits to glorify God — it not only fits reality,
because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy,
but it fits us as nothing else does.
All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places —
and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people —
is only fully present in God himself.
And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is,
whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping,
we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.”
Tim Keller, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering