Interlude: Wise Words from J.I. Packer

Evangelical scholar J.I. Packer in his famous work, Knowing God, states what I think is one of the basic tenets of what God is about; his purpose, his wisdom, and his sovereignty.

"Whats is he (God) after, then? What is his goal? What does he aim at? When he made us, his purpose was that we should love and honor him, praising him for the wonderfully ordered complexity and variety of his world, using it according to his will, and so enjoying both it and him. And though we have fallen, God has not abandoned his first purpose. Still he plans that a great host of humankind should come to love and honor him. His ultimate objective is to bring them to a state in which they please him entirely and praise him adequately, a state in which he is all in all to them, and he and they rejoice continually in the knowledge of each other's love - people rejoicing in the saving love of God, set upon them from all eternity, and God rejoicing in the responsive love of people, drawn out of them by grace through the gospel."

Truly, this is Good News. That even though we fumbled God's created and designed order by our sin, he still deems us important enough to want to share eternity with Him. Amen!