In this is my Father glorified, said Christ, that you may bring forth very much fruit, and become my Disciples. Our Lord here teaches us what it is to glorify God, namely, to be fruitful in all holiness, and to live so that our lives may shine with His grace spreading itself through our whole man. But we glorify God rather by receiving the impression of His glory on ourselves than by communicating any glory to Him. We glorify Him best as we become most like Him. We act most for His glory, when a spirit of truth, justice, meekness, kindness, and other graces, pervades our daily conduct. When we so live in the world, as becomes those who converse with that Almighty Being, who made, supports, and governs it, from whom all good flows, and in whom is no spot, stain, or shadow of evil; when captivated, as it were, by the sense of His goodness and loveliness, we endeavour to be like Him, and to be conformed, as much as creatures may be, to Him. Our dear Lord did not come into the world to let it see how great and magnificent He was. No; he came, not only to redeem by dying for us, but that we, by participation of the divine nature, and by exercise of divine virtues, such as love, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, and truth, should seek to become like Him. There is nothing that one who has any true sense and knowledge of God, can so properly thirst after and seek as participation of the divine nature. We then approve ourselves members of Christ; when our minds and affections are conformed to His, and when He, our Lord and God, approves His sovereignty over all the faculties of our souls, by rendering them as like Himself, as consists with our condition as creatures. This is to answer the end of our Being, our Redemption, and our Calling, and you are invited, and entreated, not to fail of it.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp