Of Creation
“For the glory of His eternal power, wisdom and goodness…to create.”
Certainly God created all things ex nihilo (Latin meaning out of nothing) by his power and wisdom. This explains how He did it. That God would create anything at all speaks of His goodness, for everything that exists is radically contingent, i.e., nothing would have to be.
But yet the why of creation is not adequately addressed, it seems to me. This is not to say that God’s primary motivation is other than His own glory, but what do we mean when we affirm that God created all things “for His glory”? God is ultimately glorified when His purposes are fully realized at the end of history, the eschaton. And what will it be like when God’s purposes are fully realized? The book of Revelation offers us a glimpse in chapter twenty-one where we read that “the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God”.
I agree with C.S. Lewis when he said “we were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us!” How amazing! To God be the glory.
