Purposes of God in Heaven

Such is the comfort of the child of God who walks in communion with God. He is shown the purpose of God in heaven, and though he may scarcely know how to steer his course amid the waves and storms as they grow more and more tempestuous around him, the Spirit of God carries his heart into a scene where no evil or failure can come. Whatever the Church may be now, God will set a throne in heaven, and One will sit thereon, displaying the glory of God's government, where not even the spray of the storm can reach! This is the stay of the heart.
If the Church is all in confusion and disorder, God shows His saints for their comfort that even now the government is in the hands of One who sits upon the throne. The display of glory here is dispensational and governmental—Jehovah-Elohim Shaddai—in connection with creation, as the One for whose pleasure all things are and were created.
Yet, I am sure that a heart touched by sovereign grace will not fail to discern Jesus in the scene as the One by whom all things are upheld. The eleventh verse is still unfulfilled:
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.
Fallen creation is anything but an answer to God's pleasure, being under the permitted rule of Satan, except as by Providence all things are overruled. Jesus is the sustainer of what was created for the Divine pleasure. And He will, in a new heavens and a new earth, bring all things into subjection to Him who sits upon the throne.