I dipped into Jonathan Edwards this morning. These thoughts have me captivated today. If you let them sink in to your mind and heart they become overwhelmingly good.
God’s glory is the flowing out of his goodness, or the communication of his fullness of happiness.
Happiness is very often in Scripture called by the name of glory. God’s eternal glory includes his blessedness, and when we read of the glorifying of Christ, it includes his heavenly joy. And so when we read of the glory promised or conferred on his saints, and their being glorified, the unspeakable happiness is the main thing intended. Their joy is full of glory, and they are made happy in partaking of Christ’s glory.
God’s glory and his creatures good are not to be spoken of as if they were properly or entirely distinct for they are implied one in the other.
God in seeking his glory, therein seeks the good of his creatures: because the emanation or communication of his glory implies the communicated excellency and happiness of his creatures. Their good, which he seeks, is so much in communion and union with himself. God is their good. Their excellency and happiness is nothing but the emanation and expression of God’s glory.
All our good is of God the father, and all ‘tis through God the Son; and all is in the Holy Spirit.