Sophia, why ought you to glorify God? The answer is, because He made me and takes care of me. This is true of all creatures. From Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. And this is especially true to us whom he has taken and brought near to himself and especially taking care of us. So those things are pulled together, I think most helpfully in Psalm 95. So there's that principle from Romans 11 verse 31 that we already quoted from him and through him and to him are all things to him be the glory forever. But then in Psalm 95, you have both the exalted praise for him as a creator, and then the humble and intimate and loving, adoring praise for him as redeemer. So, come, let us sing to Yahweh. Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let us shout joyfully to him with psalms. Why? for Yahweh is the great God, the great king above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth, the heights of the hills are his also. The sea is his for he made it and his hands formed the dry land. So his making it and forming it as God of creation. and his being the one in whose hand all things are and who rules over all things as king, being the God of providence, as a God of creation and the God of providence, we shout joyfully to him with thanksgiving, shout joyfully to him with psalms. So that's one reason to glorify God, because he made and takes care of everything. But then very specifically for us, he is the rock of our salvation and he is our God and the one who shepherds us, who pastures us, nourishes, takes care of every need, gives us all of our protections, the sorts of things we're usually thanking him for at the end of the day when we pray together, at the end of the day. And the, particular near relationship into which he has brought us by that redemption to make us his very own and to give himself to be our very own. This we respond to with near and adoring and sweet affectionate worship. O come humble worship. Whenever you come near the Lord, of course, it must be humble. O come, let us worship, and bow down. Let us kneel before Yahweh our Maker, for He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. Similarly, in Psalm 100, make a joyful shout to Yahweh all you land. Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before His presence with singing. Know that Yahweh, He is God. It is He who made us. and not we ourselves, so because he made me, and then the rest of verse three in Psalm 100, we are his people and the sheep of his pasture, and takes care of me. So because he made me and takes care of me, in Psalm 95, in Psalm 100, many other places in the Bible, and the Bible as a whole teaches us this wonderful truth about our God, He made us, and he takes care of us, and we glorify him as the one who made us, that he is our purpose, and he is our pleasure, and he takes care of us, especially in his redemption by the Lord Jesus, reconciling us to himself, bringing us near, Uh, to him, he takes care of us. So we worship him. That's the, that's the purpose of our redemption to bring us near and the great pleasure that he gives us in our redemption is that he, uh, gives us himself. So why ought you to glorify God? And the answer is because he made me and takes care of me.