God Saves People for His Own Name's Sake

Ultimately, God saves his people for his own name's sake. Some people do not like the sound of that; but what should God value more highly than himself? What has more worth than God? For you or me to regard ourselves as the center of the world would be egotistical to the point of being delusional, not to mention rebellious against God. But for God to regard himself supremely is no more wrong than for the sun to be at the center of the solar system. Our own planet could never occupy the sun's role at the center of the solar system. It does not have the gravity for that. God is the Creator of all! He must be supreme to us and himself. Apart from the exercise of his sovereign rule in creating and judging- in holiness and love, in righteousness and compassion- the world becomes a cruelly hollow place. (Dever, The Message of the Old Testament, pg. 715).