Can I eat a Big Mac to the glory of God?

Today’s reading is in I Corinthians 10:31, “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” What a liberating passage of scriptures this is. Instead of living some kind of divided life, part of it doing things that I think ‘are to the glory of God’ and part of it ‘just stuff I do’ Paul says everything I do can be to the glory of God. So if I am cleaning the house, or washing the car or eating a big Mac I can do it to the glory of God. According to what we read here, everything we do can be sacred if we learn how to do it to God’s glory. One of the great hindrances to living a balanced life is the common habit of dividing our lives into two areas: the sacred and the secular. We think there are some things that we do that are pleasing to God and help us to be more spiritual and then we think there are things that we do that are not really spiritual, sort of worldly. Yet we read here that Paul says we can do “all things to the glory of God.” This makes my entire life meaningful. My work is meaningful if I do it to the glory of God, doing laundry is meaningful if I do it to the glory of God, cutting the lawn, going fishing, singing songs, visiting with my friends, playing a sport and even going to sleep can all have significant meaning if I understand that everything I do can be devoted to God’s glory. Wow, let’s live it up today and do it to God’s glory!