Supplementary Quote from T. Austin Sparks

T. Austin Sparks, Power with God.

 "God must eventually be vindicated in creation by glorifying humanity.  When God undertook to create man, He undertook all the responsibility and all the liability of creating man, and it was a tremendous liability.  You get down into the depths with Job and sometimes you will ask ultimate questions, 'You created me, I am your responsibility, I lay the responsibility at your door.'  God says, 'I accept that, and when I undertook responsibility for creating man, I did so with the unalterable determination to have man glorified at the last; a glorified humanity is the only thing that will vindicate Me.'  Satan has done everything in his power to defeat God in that intention of a glorified humanity.  The whole battle in the unseen has to do with that, and the very work of Satan is being sovereignly used by God toward that end.  Job's last state is only, of course, a figure, a suggestion, of man raised from the dead and exalted to a very high position and filled with Divine fullness -- all through grace, all through the mercy of God acting sovereignly.  That is the end in view."