11 THE ONLY ULTIMATE LOVE Do People Go to the Grand Canyon to Enhance Their Self-Esteem? God’s loving us is a means to our joyfully glorifying him. In that sense, God’s love is penultimate; God’s glory is ultimate. You can see this in Romans 15:8–9. “Christ became a servant … in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy” (emphasis added). God has been merciful to us so that we would delight in glorifying him for his mercy. We see it again in Ephesians 1:4–6, “In love [God] predestined
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