The call of God to glorify him is also a call to experience our greatest Glory i.e. our greatest sense of value, meaning, importance, delight, joy etc.
It is a call that is all about us because it's all about God first i.e. God calls us to glorify him so we might experience our greatest glory and joy which is only in him, the All Glorious One.
The only reason it can be about us is because it's all about God first i.e. if God were not the God of great glory, we would not experience the great joy of knowing him or be created by him as bearers of his image with the ability to experience that glory. We not only exist because he made us but we also enjoy him because of the way he made us i.e. in his image.
The reason God pushes so hard (constantly calling) for us to glorify him is because his love of us is that great i.e. he longs for our greatest delight and joy.
When you know what you have to offer is that good for someone (who you greatly love) you will go to great lengths to persuade them to take up your offer. Even to the point of going over the top in your efforts and appearing obnoxious at times. You know once they do they will be so delighted they will be forever grateful for your persistence and staying on them.
God doesn't call us repeatedly because he needs us (Acts 17:24-25) to glorify him (knowing and experiencing his own glory has been the essence of his being as Father, Son and Spirit from all eternity past). He knows we need to glorify him. It is in our best interest when we do.
He also calls us to glorify him simply because first and foremost he is all glorious. For him to call us to glorify anything other than him is not only untrue but it is to our harm and greatest loss because it's untrue.
The call of God to glorify him is an invitation to experience our greatest delight and joy. A joy that can only be found in the source of ultimate delight and joy i.e. The interrelational joy and delight found from and within the Father, Son and Spirit.
In summary, there are two parts to God's call for us to glorify him.
1. He is all glorious. To find a greater glory in anything other than God is simply not true or possible.
2. He loves us infinitely and therefore desires our greatest delight and joy.
Actually there is a third that flows out of the first two.
3. Once we experience God in his glory we will share it with others thereby expanding it, bringing greater joy to others and even greater honor to him.
Some other links that look at different aspects of experiencing his glory and our worth are as follows.
Worthless rotten sinners
Hard wired from greatness
Created for glory
Our worth based on what?
What is more important doing or being?
Gods love based on who or what?
Our worth Gods glory
Giving and receiving glory
Why in Gods name does he love us?
