i have A great interest in who God is and why it is he has created all things. i wonder what are his desires. a close study into God's glory will help to clear up some of these questions. it is not a new concept that God does things to get him glory. although it is a new thought for me that this is the very motivation behind all that God does. i have asked the question over and over, why would God make man knowing the outcome before hand. Would it just not be better to just forget about it rather then create something that would become wicked and despise its own creator. the answer i have so often been given for this is something like this.... "God is love, and God needed something to pour his love out onto. And so he made us so he could love us. Also God wants love, he made us so we could love him, even though he knew we would fall he knew he would redeem us and some would then love him and choose him over the darkness". this answer never satisfying my question forced me to look deeper. how could a God who is so great, so powerful and mighty need us for anything? it was only by looking into the bible and searching out what God is interested in throughout, that i came to this conclusion. God has created us and all things for his glory, and his good pleasure. end of story! the earth and all that is in nature proclaim Gods glory and therefore was created for that purpose. mankind was made in order to glorify God as well, and as Christians we are like a broken wheel unless we are giving him glory and showing forth his glory. John Piper says this, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." I could talk about that statement for a really long time because the implements of it are huge! But that’s not the purpose of this little thought. though the implements of what i have just said is of an equal significance . if we are here just to love and be loved then truly salvation would be a work. for we can only truly show love to something by choosing it, and that act of choosing would be souly our doing. This is not possible because man is inherently evil and there is none that seeks after God. but, if salvation is to the soul purpose of Gods glory, then truly it is God that saves us by an act of Grace alone. if we pay close attention to Jesus' earthly ministry we will see that everything he did was to the praise of his glory. we are to follow in his way, we to need to glorify God in all we do. whether we eat or drink we do it all to the glory of God. once we see that it is God alone who saves us according to his will for his purposes can we give him the respect, honor, love, and glory he so rightfully deserves.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
todays thoughts
Psa 4:2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
i have A great interest in who God is and why it is he has created all things. i wonder what are his desires. a close study into God's glory will help to clear up some of these questions. it is not a new concept that God does things to get him glory. although it is a new thought for me that this is the very motivation behind all that God does. i have asked the question over and over, why would God make man knowing the outcome before hand. Would it just not be better to just forget about it rather then create something that would become wicked and despise its own creator. the answer i have so often been given for this is something like this.... "God is love, and God needed something to pour his love out onto. And so he made us so he could love us. Also God wants love, he made us so we could love him, even though he knew we would fall he knew he would redeem us and some would then love him and choose him over the darkness". this answer never satisfying my question forced me to look deeper. how could a God who is so great, so powerful and mighty need us for anything? it was only by looking into the bible and searching out what God is interested in throughout, that i came to this conclusion. God has created us and all things for his glory, and his good pleasure. end of story! the earth and all that is in nature proclaim Gods glory and therefore was created for that purpose. mankind was made in order to glorify God as well, and as Christians we are like a broken wheel unless we are giving him glory and showing forth his glory. John Piper says this, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." I could talk about that statement for a really long time because the implements of it are huge! But that’s not the purpose of this little thought. though the implements of what i have just said is of an equal significance . if we are here just to love and be loved then truly salvation would be a work. for we can only truly show love to something by choosing it, and that act of choosing would be souly our doing. This is not possible because man is inherently evil and there is none that seeks after God. but, if salvation is to the soul purpose of Gods glory, then truly it is God that saves us by an act of Grace alone. if we pay close attention to Jesus' earthly ministry we will see that everything he did was to the praise of his glory. we are to follow in his way, we to need to glorify God in all we do. whether we eat or drink we do it all to the glory of God. once we see that it is God alone who saves us according to his will for his purposes can we give him the respect, honor, love, and glory he so rightfully deserves.
i have A great interest in who God is and why it is he has created all things. i wonder what are his desires. a close study into God's glory will help to clear up some of these questions. it is not a new concept that God does things to get him glory. although it is a new thought for me that this is the very motivation behind all that God does. i have asked the question over and over, why would God make man knowing the outcome before hand. Would it just not be better to just forget about it rather then create something that would become wicked and despise its own creator. the answer i have so often been given for this is something like this.... "God is love, and God needed something to pour his love out onto. And so he made us so he could love us. Also God wants love, he made us so we could love him, even though he knew we would fall he knew he would redeem us and some would then love him and choose him over the darkness". this answer never satisfying my question forced me to look deeper. how could a God who is so great, so powerful and mighty need us for anything? it was only by looking into the bible and searching out what God is interested in throughout, that i came to this conclusion. God has created us and all things for his glory, and his good pleasure. end of story! the earth and all that is in nature proclaim Gods glory and therefore was created for that purpose. mankind was made in order to glorify God as well, and as Christians we are like a broken wheel unless we are giving him glory and showing forth his glory. John Piper says this, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." I could talk about that statement for a really long time because the implements of it are huge! But that’s not the purpose of this little thought. though the implements of what i have just said is of an equal significance . if we are here just to love and be loved then truly salvation would be a work. for we can only truly show love to something by choosing it, and that act of choosing would be souly our doing. This is not possible because man is inherently evil and there is none that seeks after God. but, if salvation is to the soul purpose of Gods glory, then truly it is God that saves us by an act of Grace alone. if we pay close attention to Jesus' earthly ministry we will see that everything he did was to the praise of his glory. we are to follow in his way, we to need to glorify God in all we do. whether we eat or drink we do it all to the glory of God. once we see that it is God alone who saves us according to his will for his purposes can we give him the respect, honor, love, and glory he so rightfully deserves.
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