Chapter 27. Use 6: Give God the Glory for Our Reconciliation.
Chapter 27.
Use 6: Give God the Glory for Our Reconciliation.
Again, we have yet a further application here. If God is reconciled to us in Christ, it teaches us to give God the glory for this great work; to adore the infinite wisdom, mercy, and goodness of God in reconciling us to himself through Jesus Christ.
When Christ was born, the angels sang, "Glory to God in the highest; peace on earth," and it was on this basis that they sang it. It was as if they were saying, "O Lord, what a way you have made to bring peace upon earth, that you should send your Son! Here we look upon a poor infant in a manger, and this infant is the eternal God, the second person in the Trinity, who has taken on human nature, and here he lies in the cradle; even the same person who made the world.
What a strange work of God this is, to bring peace upon earth in such a way! Glory be to God on high!"
And this is what we should spend our days doing: adoring the infinite wisdom and goodness of God in his way of reconciling the world to himself in Christ. God expects that all the children of men, to whom
Christ is made known, should fall on their faces and spend their days adoring, praising, and magnifying this great work of God.
God expects that we should have exceedingly high thoughts of this work, and if our thoughts are not elevated above all other creatures, we merely take the name of God in vain. God does not care for any other glory we give him unless we give him glory for this work. It is true that when we see the works of God in the earth and in the seas,