Glory + Love = rejoicing

I don’t expect this to be of any length but at the same time the thought was so wonderful that I thought I should share it even in brief.
God’s highest reason, motive, for doing and willing all that is done is His glory. All that is transpiring in your life right now, good or bad, easy or hard, joy or sorrow is for His glory. What we see unfolding around the world, the events taking place, even the most heinous and wicked, even the most wonderful and beautiful are to His glory. This is hard for us.
We don’t understand God’s glory in poverty and hunger, even starvation. We don’t understand God’s glory in the dark and lonely hours of our lives. We don’t understand God’s glory when we can’t pay our bills and next months rent is already due. We don’t understand God’s glory when our children are sick, or dying. We don’t understand God’s glory when our marriages are falling apart. But we don’t really understand God’s glory even when all is well. We may enjoy the thought of the glory of God when life is good and rejoicing and happiness are easier but is it really God’s glory that we are enjoying or just the comfort and ease of life. I tend to think the latter.
All that is unfolding around us is for the glory of God, the reason the “good” things in life seem to glorify Him more and the “bad” things in life tend to glorify Him less is just because of our inability to see and understand His glory now. This will change, I have thought about this in other posts (happy? and memories).
But this is not all there is for us. Though all of God’s ways are for His glory, glory is not the only motive of God. All of God’s dealings with us, His children, those born again by faith in Jesus Christ, are in love. We understand this. We do not plum the depths of it or fully understand His love, but we understand love better then we understand glory.
Whatever is taking place in your life, believer, is in love from God. This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that there is no more condemnation from God for His condemnation was completely satisfied in Jesus on the cross for you, in your place. This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that God looks at you (even in your sin and weakness and inconsistency) and loves you even as He loves Jesus. All of God’s ways are in love towards you. Now we may not understand the depths of how this is but we can grasp it if we will look to the cross of Jesus and His sacrificial life and death in your place.
You look at Jesus and you see the love of God for you even when you were an enemy lost in sin, and there, in Jesus, on that cross, you see the guarantee that God loves you. God loved you when you were an enemy but now He calls you son. His ways are love towards you always. He does not ever look at you apart from His Son, or He never looks at you without looking through the lenses of Jesus.
God might bring great hardship and difficulty and pain into your life but it is in His love for you that He does, and it is to His glory to do so, which is what I really want to say and for you to hear. God glorifies His name in loving you. I can hardly say that calmly without holding back tears because of the joy that erupts within me. God glorifies His name in loving you! Think of this but for a moment, God seeks to glorify His name mightily and He always achieves what He seeks and He has chosen to mightily glorify His name by loving you. He works to love you mightily that His glory would increase in your life. This seems to be one of the greatest things I have understood and only pray that it might penetrate your heart as well. How do I word this that you may see as I see, feel it as I feel it…
I am more confident of God’s love over me because I understand His love will glorify His name if His love is lavished on me immeasurably. He has already shown how amazing His love is by sending Jesus to live and die and rise in my place when I was an enemy and that glorifies His name, but now, oh the joy, I am His son accepted and looked upon even as Jesus is looked upon and now too, He will love me to the increase of His glory. I know that God’s love upon me is to glorify His name mightily and that He always succeeds. I may not understand every circumstance or every trial but I know that God will not fail to glorify His name in pouring out His love upon me in Jesus. I hope you see this, that God’s glory is seen in loving you in Jesus lavishly.
I feel that my words have failed me in expressing this to you but I pray you would consider what has been said and rejoice that God’s glory is in loving you.