To be to the praise if God’s glory is God’s doing. He has made us what we are. “All merit and worthiness on our part is excluded: the bestowal of God’s grace and favor is a measure of His merciful goodness alone, in His Beloved, in and with Christ Himself, Col 1:13; Mt 3:17. Through the grace of God in Jesus, whose entire work is an expression of the love of God toward us, we become both the objects and the recipients of His love.” Kretzmann Ephesians 1
That spiritual truth begins with Paul addressing Ephesians to the saints in Ephesus.
Paul, an emissary of Messiah Yeshua through the will of God, to the holy ones (saints) who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Messiah Yeshua: Ephesians 1:1
Then Paul blesses them and us with grace and peace sent from heaven. “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. Ephesians 1:2
Now Paul begins explaining how God conveyed His grace and peace blessing us now and for eternity.
He begins with “ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.” Blessed is used only of God, blessed (as entitled to receive blessing from man), worthy of praise.
God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heaven 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love, 5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Yeshua the Messiah to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved.
In Jesus the Messiah 7 In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him 10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Messiah, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.
“… to the end that we should be to the praise of God’s glory 11 We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will, 12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Messiah.
The gospel of salvation. Sealed with the Holy Spirit a pledge of our inheritance. Redemption. 13 In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
What God did for us, is doing for us and will do for us is to the praise of His glory.
Paul commends the Ephesians and prays for their/our spiritual enlightenment. His epistle is also written for us. 15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Yeshua which is among you and the love which you have toward all the holy ones, 16 don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts†enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the holy ones,
The power of God raising Messiah from the dead, sitting him at His right hand as the King of the Kingdom above all things in subjection under his feet now and forever. 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might 20 which he worked in Messiah when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. 22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.Ephesians 1:15-23
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God is the is the source of our life in Messiah Jesus. “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.” 26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, 29 that no flesh should boast before God. 30 Because of him, you are in Messiah Yeshua, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, 31 that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”1 Corinthians 1:26-31