27 Quotes/Phrases/Thoughts/Lyrics to live by: #3

You may have noticed by now, or you may not, but I sign off all of my blogs,


"Soli Deo Gloria" -Latin


It's a tag line I picked up a year ago or so now.. I started noticing the phrase a couple of places that I frequented (a blog, a YouTube channel, and few articles I was reading at the time) so I looked up what it meant. 


Wikipedia says, "Soli Deo gloria is a Latin term for Glory to God alone. It has been used by artists like Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and Christoph Graupner to give God credit for their work. The phrase has become one of the five solas propounded to summarise the Reformers' basic beliefs during the Protestant Reformation. As a doctrine, it means essentially that everything that is done is for God's glory to the exclusion of humankind's self-glorification and pride. Christians are to be motivated and inspired by God's glory and not their own."

For me, it's become a litmus test for everything I write. Since I was a yearbook editor in high school, it goes against my grain to not proof-read something I write. And, yes, I realize my grammar may not be that of an English major - mostly because I prefer to "write like I talk" - to be more informal than formal.. but I digress. So, every e-mail I send, or post I write, I've written/re-read/altered/re-read/proofed again/and then sent/published.

That being said, I sign off with 'Soli Deo Gloria' as a frame to my comments and my thought before I press send are ".. is what I just wrote something that I want to be attributed to me of a reflection of Christ?".. "is this something that I am proud to say, 'yes I wrote that' and 'yes, I love Jesus' in the same sentence?" .."to the best of my knowledge am I being faithful to my Heavenly Father's challenge: "be holy as I am holy"?"


In light of all that..
Soli Deo Gloria!
:D