Benefits of Glorifying God

The Benefits of Glorifying God or Life Organizing Principal or Purpose of Creation—The Chief Good of Life—The True End and Object of Life—Showing the context of how life fits the bigger picture framework. Overall advantage, consequences and generalities.

Adopt and employ that general principle of true religion [do all to the glory of God]:

  1. Direct to all virtue.
  2. Sanctify the common actions of life.

—John Venn

The reasons why we should adopt this rule are,

  1. That the glory of God is the highest end.
  2. That God himself has made it the end of creation, of providence, of redemption.
  3. That the Lord Jesus Christ made it his end.
  4. That all saints and angels do the same.
  5. That it is essential to the order and happiness of the universe. What would result if, instead of making the sun the center of our system, some little satellite should set up, or be set up as such? How would it preserve order or harmony?
  6. The making any other end than God’s glory our object, is the sum and essence of idolatry. It incurs all its guilt and all its evils.
  7. It brings the whole life into perfect harmony, inward and outward. It promotes holiness, and happiness, and usefulness.
  8. It is the end which we must promote, either by our salvation, or perdition.

—Charles Hodge

Delight

“He meets us in every avenue of life, he knocks at the door of our hearts, that we may open our eyes to gaze upon his beauty, and see there the revelation of that glory which can alone produce satisfying delight.”—Henry Craik.

Satisfaction

“We may subserve it [God’s glory] willingly; and then we move onward in peace and satisfaction, because at every step we are tending to an increase of happiness, and advancing in a course of unlimited progress. We may subserve it unwillingly; and in the very opposition of our will, we cherish the seeds and principles of misery. If there be true happiness in sin and disappointment and sorrow, in feeding on ashes and delighting in vanity, then, and then only, is there abiding enjoyment to be found in a course of opposition to the will of God. Those who are willing and obedient, subserve the glory of his grace; those who refuse and rebel, subserve the glory of his justice.”—Henry Craik.