“Suppose you have a prayer list: ‘Lord help me be patient and kind and gentle and faithful and honest and pure and self-denying and loving and courageous and risk-taking and generous and joyful.’ Suppose that you add to that list: ‘And help me to exalt Christ.’ This would be good. Very good. But what remains unclear in this list is how exalting Christ relates to all those other things.⠀

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Something dramatic and profoundly biblical happens when you don’t list ‘exalt Christ’ as a separate aim alongside the others, but as an adjective modifying the rest. Lord help me show Christ-exalting patience, and Christ-exalting kindness, and Christ-exalting gentleness, and Christ-exalting faithfulness, and so on.⠀

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This small grammatical change wakens us to the all-important fact that the glory of Christ matters in everything we do — not just alongside it, but in it. There is no part of life, no matter how seemingly insignificant (Christ-exalting teeth-brushing), in which making much of Christ is alien. ‘Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God’ (1 Corinthians 10:31). . . .⠀

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Treating ‘Christ-exalting’ as an adjective weaves an all-encompassing truth into our words, and thus into our minds and hearts — namely, the truth that making much of Christ is not one action alongside others, but is the ever-present and highest aim of all our actions and thoughts and feelings.”⠀  -John Piper