God Is The Creator.

God Is The Creator.

For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen. Romans 11:36 NKJV

He resolves all into the sovereignty of God (Romans 11:36): For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things, that is, God is all in all. All things in heaven and earth (especially those things which relate to our salvation, the things which belong to our peace) are of him by way of creation, through him by way of providential influence, that they may be to him in their final tendency and result. Of God as the spring and fountain of all, through Christ, God-man, as the conveyance, to God as the ultimate end. These three include, in general, all God's causal relations to his creatures: of him as the first efficient cause, through him as the supreme directing cause, to him as the ultimate final cause for the Lord hath made all for himself, Revelation 4:11. If all be of him and through him, there is all the reason in the world that all should be to him and for him. It is a necessary circulation if the rivers received their waters from the sea, they return them to the sea again, Ecclesiastes 1:7. To do all to the glory of God is to make a virtue of necessity for all shall in the end be to him, whether we will or no. And so he concludes with a short doxology: To whom be glory for ever, Amen. God's universal agency as the first cause, the sovereign ruler, and the last end, ought to be the matter of our adoration. Thus all his works do praise him objectively but his saints do bless him actively they hand that praise to him which all the creatures do minister matter for, Psalm 145:10. Paul had been discoursing at large of the counsels of God concerning man, sifting the point with a great deal of accuracy but, after all, he concludes with the acknowledgment of the divine sovereignty, as that into which all these things must be ultimately resolved, and in which alone the mind can safely and sweetly rest. This is, if not the scholastic way, yet the Christian way, of disputation. Whatever are the premises, let god's glory be the conclusion especially when we come to talk of the divine counsels and actings, it is best for us to turn our arguments into awful and serious adorations. The glorified saints, that see furthest into these mysteries, never dispute, but praise to eternity. - Matthew Henry

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