Cathedral's going by to the right, so that means they are, what? two blocks away from the Bund. Bobby Shaftoe, and the other half-dozen Marines on his truck, are staring down the length of Kiukiang Road, onto which they've just made this careening high-speed turn. Shanghai, 1645 hours, Friday, the 28th of November 1941. Shaftoe's gut reaction is: Sure, what're they going to do, declare waron us? but as the highest-ranking man on this truck he's probably supposed to be using his head or something, so he doesn't blurt it out just yet. A Sikh policeman hurdles a night soil cart. "Are we allowed to run over people?" Private Wiley inquires, and then mashes the horn button before Bobby Shaftoe can answer. The modern world's hell on haiku writers: "Electrical generator" is, what, eight syllables? You couldn't even fit that onto the secondline!
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Could Wiley be losing his nerve? And, in the back, under the tarps, a ton and a half of file cabinets clanking, code books slaloming, fuel spanking the tanks of Station Alpha's electrical generator. Bobby can still hear the coolies singing, though, and now too there's the gunlike snicking of the truck's clutch linkage as Private Wiley downshifts. Is "tires" one syllable or two? How about "wail?" The truck finally makes up its mind not to tip over, and thuds back onto four wheels. He is an infinitely glorious, all-satisfying God, offering us everlasting and supreme joy in himself.is the best that Corporal Bobby Shaftoe can do on short notice-he's standing on the running board, gripping his Springfield with one hand and the rearview mirror with the other, so counting the syllables on his fingers is out of the question. But if God exalts himself, he draws attention to the one Person who can make us happy forever, himself. If we exalt ourselves, we are not loving, because we distract people from the one Person who can make them happy forever, God. “In your presence there is fullness of joy at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” ( Psalm 16:11 ).God is the one being for whom self-exaltation is the most loving act, because he is exalting for us what alone can satisfy us ful ly and forever. And since God is the source of greatest happiness, and since he is the greatest treasure in the world, and since his glory is the most satisfying gif t he could possibly give us, therefore it is the kindest, most loving thing he could possibly do - to reveal himself, and magnify hi mself and vindicate himself for our everlasting enjoyment.
In fact, not only is there no conflict between your happiness and God’ s glory, but his glory shines in your happiness, when your happiness is in him. If that is true, then there is no conflict between your greatest exhilaration and God’s greatest glorification. That’s the shortest summary of what we mean by Christian Hedonism. God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. God’s ultimate aim in all that he does is that his glory might b e displayed for the appreciation of those who embrace it, and the desolation of those who don’t. And in the end he will fill the earth with the knowledge of his glory (Habakkuk 2:14). He will send his Son a second time to receive the glory due him (2 Thessalonians 1:9-10).
He commands his people to do all things for his glory (1 Corinthians 10:31).
He sends the Holy Spirit to glorify his Son (John 16:14). He puts his Son to death to display the glory of his vindicated righteousness (Romans 3:25-26). He sends his Son to confirm his trustworthiness and so the Gentiles will glorify him for his mercy (Roman 15:8-9). He restores them after exile for his glory (Isaiah 48:9-11). He delivers them from Egypt f or his glory (Psalm 106:7-8). He chooses Israel for his glory (Isaiah 49:3). He creates humankind for his glory (Isaiah 43:7). “It appears that all that is ever spoken of in the Scripture as an ulti- mate end of God’s works is included in that one phrase, ‘the glory of God.’” God elects his people before the foundation of the world for his glory (Ephesians 1:6). This too is shown throughout the Scriptures, as Jonathan Edwards has demonstrated so powerfully in his essay entitled Dissertation Concerning the End for which God Created the World. God is committed to doing everything for his glory.
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