“For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body.”

‭‭Colossians‬ ‭2:9‬

“For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.”

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4:6‬

Why did God create the universe? And why is he governing it the way he is? What is God achieving?

The meaning of the universe is the manifest glory of God!

That manifestation is His very Son Jesus Christ – the supreme revelation of God! He is God in human form. This is what God is achieving. Indeed, the heavens, and the history of the world, are “telling the glory of God.” But Jesus Christ was sent to accomplish something that needed doing. He came to remedy the fall. He came to rescue sinners from inevitable destruction because of their sin. These rescued ones will see and savor and display the glory of God with everlasting joy.

It would not be possible to see and savor and celebrate the glory of God apart from the saving work of Christ. As he died for sinners, Christ revealed the love and righteousness of the Father supremely. This was the apex of the revelation of the glory of God — the glory of his grace.

Without his work, that end — to reveal the fullness of the glory of God for the enjoyment of God’s people — would not have happened.

The one who forever and ever will be the focus of our worship as we spend eternity seeing and savoring more and more of what he revealed of God – became a curse for us.

Jesus is the end for which the universe was made, and the means that makes that end possible to enjoy by justified sinners.

~ Taken from a text by John Piper