Category: attributes of God
Is God for me or for Himself?
I would like to try to persuade you that the chief end of God is to glorify God and enjoy himself forever (also the historic first point of the Westminster Confession). Or to put it another way: the chief end of God is to enjoy glorifying himself.
The reason this may sound strange is that we tend to be more familiar with our duties than with God’s designs. We know why we exist – to glorify God and enjoy him forever. But why does God exist? What should he love with all his heart and soul and mind and strength? Whom should he worship? Or will we deny him that highest of pleasures? It matters a lot what God’s ultimate allegiance is to!His allegiance is utterly and only to Himself. Sound egotistical. Yes. But He has the right to be. We worship Him as He wants to be worshipped.
Immortality
I heard a great quote this week that I thought I would pass on.
“You are immortal until the Lord is done with you.”
AWEsome
AWEsome is such an overused word today that it has so lost its meaning. It comes from the word AWE, which means to marvel or bring wonder. The word AWEsome just cannot be used about anybody or anything. It can only be used of One. God. He is full of AWE. I am filled with AWE when I try to comprehend Him. How about you?
