Quotes About Purpose

He will direct it according to His sovereign purpose for His glory and our good.

But the reverent reader of Scripture cannot fail to see the sovereign hand of God arranging those ordinary circumstances to accomplish His purpose.

So we should never ask why in the sense of demanding that God explain or justify His actions or what He permits in our lives.

God can and does work in the hearts and minds of rulers and officials of government to accomplish His sovereign purpose.

Proverbs 16:9—"In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps"—

our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

so God's honor is to take precedence over our feelings. We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don't understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur. As we seek God's glory, we may be sure that He has purposed our good and that He will not be frustrated in fulfilling that purpose.

God sovereignly intervened in the hearts—the desires and wills—of the Egyptians to accomplish His purpose for the Israelites.

But note also the twofold objective of God's providence: His own glory and the good of His people. These two objectives are never antithetical; they are always in harmony with each other. God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory. He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together.

Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

But we must be transformed more and more into the likeness of Christ. That is the purpose of discipline.

But God never explains to us what He is doing, or why. There is no indication that God ever explained to Job the reasons for all of his terrible sufferings.

asking a demanding why of God.

God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory.

He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together.

God still holds us accountable for the very sins that He uses to accomplish His purpose.

the beginning, directs and orchestrates millions of events and circumstances every day.

to see God solely as love is to overlook the beauty and the purpose of the cross.

God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).

God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish His purpose. And His purpose is for His glory and our good.

God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

God never allows people to make decisions about us that undermine His plan for us.

We can put this down as a bedrock truth: God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

That is, all that God does or allows in all of His creation will ultimately serve His glory. As John Piper says in his book Desiring God, "The chief end of God is to glorify God and enjoy himself forever."[ 3]