January
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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).
By T. Austin-Sparks from: The Cross and
the Way of Life - Chapter 8
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