Called
according to His purpose. Romans 8:28
God has a very great purpose for His people by their eternal
calling and by their wonderful redemption. A very great purpose... so much
greater than the majority of Christians have realized. I do not think I am
saying a false thing when I say that perhaps the larger number of Christians
have got little further than to know that they are saved, and to be very glad
that they are saved, to rejoice in being saved. Comparatively few are really in
the good of God’s great, great purpose from eternity, “Called according to His
purpose” (Rom. 8:28). It is not for us now to say what that purpose is, to
explain it. It is sufficient to state the fact. We are called with a very great
purpose, not just even to get out of Egypt and the clutches of the devil, but
with an object, a tremendous object, nothing less than the infinite fullness of
God’s Son, Jesus Christ, and an eternal vocation. It is a great thing to which
we are called in Christ, but how many Christians are really in it, and if they
know they are in it, are tasting of the meaning of it: that this Life is an
inexhaustible Life, that there are new vistas all the time?
I am not exaggerating. The heavens are opened and we see more
and more, and ever more, of what it is to which we are called. It is just
wonderful.... You are not meant just to be saved and get to heaven, to know
your sins are forgiven and to have a certain number of blessings which come
with salvation. But there lies before you and reaches out through eternal ages
such a purpose of God concerning us all that “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared
for them that love Him” (1 Cor. 2:9).
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