““Our reason to pray for such spiritual benefits is a fairly obvious one—one that we have affirmed again and again in this book: “so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thess. 1:12). That is the ultimate reason we do anything in the Christian life. If that isn’t our ultimate goal, we’re focusing too much on ourselves (cf. John 14:13–14).””
