"All Things Are for Your Sakes."

2 Corinthians 4:15
THIS is a wonderful proof of divine love. God has raised up the Lord Jesus, raised Him from the dead. He will raise us up by Jesus. All will he presented together in the day of glory; all the saints. But in the meantime, how about all these difficulties, perplexities, trials, sufferings? How about the scene around—the circumstances that seem to baffle, to mock all effort, to disappoint all hope? what is the answer to this? “All things are for your sakes,” that the abundant grace might, through the thanksgiving of many, redound to the glory of God. If you take the highest point, God’s object in creation and redemption, His glory and the glory of His Christ, ― “All things were created by Him and for Him,”―i.e., the Son, you have a great thought, commencing in eternity past, if I may use the expression, and looking on to eternity future, the glory of God in Christ filling the scene. These are the things not seen—the things eternal. Faith has to do with them; they are real, they are sure; nothing can affect them. But this little time state, this little gap between eternity past and eternity future, is that arranged for too? Yes, “all things are for your sakes.” The love, the wisdom that planned, the infinite tenderness that arranged the whole scene, watched the whole process, seeing the end from the beginning, regards all with an eye to the blessing of His saints. Jesus risen and exalted rules in the heavens; He is the God of grace; grace reigns through righteousness by Him. Grace abounds (1 Timothy 1:1414And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. (1 Timothy 1:14)), grace calls, justifies, sanctifies, begins, carries on, completes the work in each and all. It is all to the praise of the glory of God’s grace. This may quiet the heart. “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” “All things are for your sakes.” How He has loved us!