“Enjoy Life, Enjoy God: This is Our Chief End”
Life is meant to be enjoyed. God declared it good. Yet we know that the wholesome earthiness of life is best savored by a robust faith in God through Jesus Christ. Healthy followers of Christ are learning to do both well: enjoy life, and to enjoy God…they are not in opposition, but inseparably connected. May you be encouraged in God’s love. Encouragement, at its root meaning, involves not only a pep talk, or pat on the back, but sometimes a candid voice of exhortation. But it’s all cloaked in the grace of God.
Acts 16:5 leader Rev. Dale Patterson notes that the Westminster Catechism, one of the great documents the church ever produced, is a series of one hundred Q&As. But the first question is the most famous:
Q: What is the chief end of man? A: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and enjoy him forever."
As Paul writes: “For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.” - Romans 11:36
In light of this truth, there is nothing that deserves our greater care than to fulfill the great end for which each of us was made—to glorify God and enjoy Him forever! ""Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!" (Philippians 4:4)
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