According to the Westminster Confession of Faith, the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.

Is this genuinely your day-to-day experience?

Today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg challenges us to stop and consider

the immensity of what Jesus has secured for all who believe and trust in him. Let's open our

Bibles to John Chapter 17. It's quite amazing and wonderful.

In John chapter 6, Jesus says, I came down from heaven not to do my own will, but to do

the will of him who sent me.

When you read on in the gospel, he says, I don't write my own sermons. He doesn't actually

say that. There's a paraphrase. I made that up. He says, the words that I speak are the words

that my father gave me to speak. He actually says that the works that he does are the works

that the father has given him to do.

And so the Father glorifies the Son in bringing him through the cross, through the grave,

to the place where the head that once was crowned with thorns is crowned with glory now.

It's so vast. You can't really get your arms around it, can you? It's just amazing. And yet,

in the eyes of the world, the unopened eyes of men and women, the cross is a signal of defeat.

What is there any glory in the death of this man hanging as a bloodied wreck outside the city walls? How does this work?

Glorify your son. Father, glorify me. And not only that, but as the Father glorifies his son in the cross,

the son triumphs over the rulers and over the authorities. In Colossians chapter 2,

you have this amazing reminder of this, and you who were dead in your trespasses and in the

uncircumcision of your flesh, God made a life together with Him, having given, forgiven us all our

trespasses. You see how easy it is for us to so personalize our Christian lives that it almost

seems trivial to people because of the way we speak

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