But we are to enjoy God, as well as to glorify him — 1. By choosing him as the portion of our souls, and seeking and finding our highest happiness in Him. . . . 2. God is enjoyed, as well as honored, by trusting him. . . . 3. God is to be enjoyed perfectly and eternally, by all who make the glorifying and enjoying of Him their chief end. This is expressly stated, in the answer we consider, as that at which we ought constantly to aim. The present is but the bud of being–the smallest part, the incipient stage of our existence (Ashbel Green, Lectures on the Shorter Catechism of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America: Addressed to Youth, 31-32).