The Chief End of Man

"The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever."
It would be Scripturally false to leave out the second phrase - "and to enjoy Him forever."
The men who formulated this showed great wisdom and insight in saying, "and to enjoy Him forever." Nevertheless the first phrase is most important; in Christianity we have a non-determined God who did not need to create because there was love and communication within the Trinity, and yet having been created, we as men can glorify God. But we must feel the force of both sides of the issue. If we fail to emphasize that we can glorify God, we raise the whole question of whether man is significant at all. We begin to lose our humanity as soon as we begin to lose the emphasis that what we do makes a difference. We can glorify God and we can make God sad.
That is tremendous.
Francis Schaeffer