SDG
Scripture Reading: 1 Peter 4:7-11
If you didn’t catch it, today’s Scripture is the same one I used yesterday. As I noted yesterday in this passage Peter gives us a list of things we should be actively doing. Loving each other, showing hospitality, and serving others with the spiritual gift(s) God has given to us. I am coming back to this text today because I wanted to point out the ending to the passage. Peter plants a spiritual exclamation point at the end of this paragraph.
It is a doxology. An easy tell is that final word. Amen.
In order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
That is, or at least it should be, the driving, motivating, quickening power behind these good works. Do everything to and for the glory of God.
Johann Sabastian Bach was a musical genius who never ceased to give glory to God for his talent. He ended the pages on which his original compositions were written with letters. At times he would write “INS,” which stood for the Latin words meaning “In the name of Christ.” He ended some of his works with “JJ,” meaning “Jesus help.” On others, he wrote the letters “SDG.” SDG was the letters that stood for the Latin phrase “Solo Deo Gloria,” or “To God alone be the glory.”
May all of our works be stamped in some way with an SDG!
