God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him, yes, and amen.

But wouldn't God also be glorified in us if we were just minions, his slavish laborers?

It's a question from a listener named Gage.

Pastor John, hello.

I just finished reading the first chapter of your book Desiring God.

After the introduction, I was fired up to read more about Christian hedonism and already

felt as if I could call your book a paradigm shifting book for me.

My confusion hit when I began reading about the happiness of God.

As you describe the chief end of God, I didn't find myself in disbelief.

If God's chief end is to glorify himself, that is absolutely believable.

Where I am awestruck is the fact that his glorification is his chief end and yet he still

doesn't require us to live by works to satisfy him.

Now my question is this, why is it that with God, his chief end being to glorify himself,

doesn't require us to slave away in works.

Couldn't he be just as glorified in us if we were tireless slaves for him, Pastor John?

What would you say?

Couldn't he be just as glorified in us if we were tireless slaves for him?

The answer to that question is easy and clear, no.

He could not be just as glorified, but the best way to come at a question like this is

not first to dig into the nature of God to explain why this is so.

That's what I was frankly tempted to do because it's not hard to do and it's glorious

to do it.

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