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God is our father and he created all things not only for his own glory and for his good pleasure (as some assert) but by his knowledge and will because he knows the faithful and wills them to be his adult children forever not only serving him as obedient servants but as sons and daughters whose destiny is to inherit everything he has created for them. There's a fork in the road. On the one hand there's the absolute sovereign who rules and judges according to his good pleasure in total freedom without reference to anything besides his own will. On the other hand there's a Father who loves and serves as well as orders and guides who rules and listens who works and encourages his creatures to cooperate with him in his work.
Creation is ordered for our benefit as well as God's glory and there is no greater created glory then for God to be glorified in the happiness and perfection of his most beloved creature, man.
God is the Father Almighty, whose fatherhood and power shed light on one another: God reveals his fatherly omnipotence by the way he takes care of our needs; by the filial adoption that he gives us ("I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty"): finally by his infinite mercy, for he displays his power at its height by freely forgiving sins.
God's almighty power is in no way arbitrary: "In God, power, essence, will, intellect, wisdom, and justice are all identical. Nothing therefore can be in God's power which could not be in his just will or his wise intellect."
(source)God's almighty power is in no way arbitrary: "In God, power, essence, will, intellect, wisdom, and justice are all identical. Nothing therefore can be in God's power which could not be in his just will or his wise intellect."
