C. J. Mahaney offers another set of helpful practices to help us focus on glorifying God at the end of each day:
"The end of each day offers us a unique opportunity to cultivate humility and weaken pride, as well as to sense God's pleasure. How? By reviewing our day and carefully assigning all glory to God for the grace we've experienced. You see, throughout each day we're experiencing saving grace, sanctifying grace, sustaining grace, serving grace - grace that should amaze us." (pp.79-80)
Avoid cosmic plagiarism - "Whatever successes you experience in your life and ministry and vocation, learn to immediately transfer the glory to Him. If your business is successful, are you transferring the glory for that success to Him? If people compliment you for your effective parenting, do you transfer the glory to Him? Recognize that though you're a means of grace to your children, you can't in and of yourself transform your children - only God can. And as He does, only He gets the glory." (pp. 81-82)
Receive the gift of sleep from God and acknowledge His purpose for sleep. "A Christian, informed and inspired by Scripture, views the cessation of work each day, the limitation God places upon work each day, and the laying down to sleep each night, as altogether a gift from God. A gift so graciously provided in His lavish generosity. And those who neglect this gift will inevitably suffer consequences." (p.83)
"If possible, make your final thought each night an expression of gratefulness for the Savior's sacrifice on the cross as your substitute for your many sins." (p. 84)
"So don't just fall asleep tonight or any night. Seize this opportunity to mortify pride and cultivate humility by setting apart sleep as a holy gift from God, as a reminder of your full dependence on Him and as an occasion to examine your heart before Him." (pp. 85-86)
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