Encouraging - Goal

The ultimate goal of life is that God be displayed as glorious because of all that he is and all that he has made and done – especially the grace he has shown in the work of Christ. The way we glorify him is by knowing him truly, by treasuring him above all things, and by living in a way that shows he is our supreme treasure.

It is my eager expectation and hope that…Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me is Christ, and to die is gain…To depart and be with Christ…is far better…I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord (Phil 1:20-21, 23, 3:8).

John Piper, Think, (Crossway, Wheaton, IL: 2010), 15.