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 Corinthians 2:9
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