God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
If God has no need, why did He create and redeem? The answer is simple: God created to glorify His goodness. He created a context to display and exercise His moral perfections. We exist for God’s glory. We exist because God’s goodness is constantly overflowing, and He wants to display it and share it.
Now, how would a God like this go about loving us? Would it not be by providing us with the highest good possible? And is not God Himself the highest good? Therefore, if God really loves us, He must work to bring us into the enjoyment of who He is (there’s our happiness) and thereby win from our hearts praise for Himself (there’s His glory). He must do everything in His infinite power to lead us into praise and honor of His name. By winning for Himself our worship as the God of all glory, we experience the greatest possible satisfaction, namely, enjoying God. There’s our happiness again. And God is most glorified by our enjoyment of Him. Or, to put it in words we already heard, God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
PASTRY
FILLING
FOR THE PASTRY: Combine pastry ingredients by hand or in a food processor
to form a soft dough. Do not overmix. Chill for 30 minutes. Roll out and
line an 11-or-12-inch pie or tart pan. Prick the base and chill for
15-to-20 minutes. Preheat oven to 375F. FOR THE FILLING: Heat 1/3 of the
butter in a saute pan, add the chopped almonds and saute over medium heat
until browned. Cool. Melt the remaining butter in a small saucepan. Cool.
Mix the ground almonds and sugar in a bowl and add the eggs one by one,
beating after each addition until the mixture is light and thick. Sift the
potato or corn starch with the baking powder and salt and fold into the
almond mixture. Fold in the melted butter. Do not overmix. Pour the mixture
into the tart shell and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the batter begins
to set. Quickly scatter the chopped almonds over the top in one even layer.
Return the tart to the oven and continue baking for 17-to-20 minutes or
until the pastry is brown and the filling is firm.
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