The following resource is from desiring God.org. So let's go back now, take a step back. Why the Bible? And let me develop.

And let me develop a six-step argument for why we should look so closely at this book. Step number one, God's call on every human being is that

we glorify him. By knowing him him

accurately in our thoughts and by enjoying him intensely in our emotions and by

reflecting him consistently in our emotions and by reflecting him consistently in our actions.

That is the call of God on your life.

I'll give you some Bible for that in just a minute.

But that's my starting place in this seminar. I know why I exist and I know why you exist. God's put you

here to glorify him knowing, enjoying, showing.

Another way to put it, this is simply a second way

to say the same thing.

God is calling each of us to show his supreme greatness.

I'm trying to find a word other than glory just so if you stumble over the word glorify you will now see it

means something like show his supreme greatness by using our mind to grasp his truth, using our heart to feel his beauty,

using our body to put that truth and beauty on display. Those all say the same thing. So that's why you

exist. You have a mind in the image of God, you have a emotion slash will in the image of God you have a emotion slash will in the image of God and you have a body

to act it out in this world and we're called to make God look great by knowing him, enjoying him, reflecting him in this way.

That's step number one.

Here's the Bible versus Psalm underneath it.

This is Isaiah 43. Bring my sons from afar, my daughters from the ends of the

earth, everyone who is called by my name whom I created for my glory. That's why you were made. Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do

all to the glory of God. I don't think there is a verse that my mother or my father put in letters to me more often than that verse right there.

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