Quick answer: What is the chief end of man? Come on, you have this.
The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
There's a mouthful.
As I continue meditating on Ephesians 1, I see that all the gifts that God lavishes on us ought to point us back to Him. Yet we love to take those gifts and run away from Him with them, blessing our good fortune.
Paul calls us here to bless God because of the blessings with which we are blessed. His blessings to us serve to magnify Him and His great goodness to us. After you've noted all the verbs in this passage, note the reasons for those gifts: to the praise of His glorious grace, that we should be holy and blameless before him, to unite all things in him, to the praise of His glory, to the praise of His glory.
We see His purpose over and under and through it all. In His abundant and undeserved love for us, He proclaims His glory and His beauty and His kindness and His love. Our salvation honors Him and announces His sweet condescension to us sinners. Our inheritance points to a God who alone does far more abundantly than all we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). There are no words in our language to adequately describe His goodness and majesty.
Can we enjoy this God? Now that we belong to Him, we can. He is not a God far off, but One that is as near as our hearts, where He dwells. Lord, you have been our dwelling place
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13).
Today, glorify this God who dwells within, and enjoy Him forever.
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