By referring to the last Book of the Bible, chapter 4:11, we learn that all things were created for
His pleasure, and that glory and honor and power are His as the worthy One. This scripture takes
us back to the beginning when man, among that fair creation, is seen in the Garden of Eden. Alas!
There was in him found no worthiness, for he sinned, allowing the Evil One to implant doubt of
God’s Word in his mind and heart.

This evil work has been going on ever since. See Romans 3, where the tongue, mouth and lips,
feet and heart, are all in opposition to God (verses 10 to 19), and culminating in the verdict of
verse 23:"For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

How refreshing to turn from this sad picture, and read in verses 24 and 25 of Romans 3, to see
that justification is brought in by the Lord Jesus Christ, the remission of sins accomplished and
man’s good thus achieved, shutting out any work of man’s sinful doing, and upholding God’s
eternal glory only. (Romans 16:27).

Again, in Revelation 5, verses 9 to 13, we read of the ascription of the worthiness to Him, as "the
Lamb that was slain, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and
glory, and blessing,"

A reference to Romans 8 will show the groaning creation, verse 22, and our being "conformed
to the image of His Son", verse 29. "The manifestation of the sons of God" is seen in verse 19,
and in n Thess. 1:10 we read that "He shall come to be glorified in His saints." Again we see His
glory and our good brought out.

Thus we see the ultimate end of God’s glory achieved in bringing us to Himself in the glory. We
are reminded ofour blessed Lord’s words in John 17:3,4:"And this is life eternal, that they
might; know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee
on the earth:I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." Our knowing Him in this
fuller way links these two verses together, and gives to that work the perfection that glorifies our
blessed God.

What a sobering effect this should have upon us who are His. Well might the Apostle Paul say:
"For me to live is Christ, and to die is, gain" (Phil 1:21). Well might the thoughts of the following
lines express the prayerful desires produced by the above truth.

Is there a thing beneath the sun
That strives with Thee my heart to share?
O tear it thence, reign Thou alone,
The Spring of every motion there!
Then shall my joyful heart be free,
And find its deep repose in Thee!

May our gracious Lord help us to live in the consciousness of this important and soul-sustaining

truth.

FRAGMENT
If the light made Paul blind (as a man), he never lost the remembrance of it in his soul; therefore,
he called it "the mark." (Phil. 3:14).

FRAGMENT
Sir Isaac Newton was so affected by looking at the sun with only one eye, that for three weeks,
in a darkened chamber, he was haunted by a circular glare and image of it. May we be by faith
so full of the glory of the Lord, that it may be ever before us, making us practically like Him,
supplying us with power for our difficulties, and with abounding praise to Him who has blessed
us with such a rich salvation.