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Don’t forget to tell your kids why God does everything

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I was reminded today that I should tell my kids not only to

  • Do everything for the glory of God (1 Cor 10:31)

But also:

  • God does everything for His glory

This is good news.  When God does everything for His own glory it includes His love and actions of saving us from our sin.  It is an expression of his glory and joy.  And Joy is not complete unless it is expressed by praise, see CS Lewis:

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy, because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation (‘A Word About Praising’ in Reflections on the Psalms 95).

For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another. (Isaiah 48:11)

God’s goal in predestination, election, and adoption was to the praise of His glorious grace (for His own glory) (Eph 1:4-6, 12).