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).