0021. Christ Predestinated My Life
Christ Predestinated My Life
"According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:
"Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will" (Eph_1:4-5).
Predestination is a doctrine that has brought many question marks to the minds of some of God’s children; and yet it is one of the most helpful and blessed doctrines of the Bible. Predestination does not have to do so much with the common salvation, as with the marvelous preparations which God has in store for those who love Him.
It is true: "Whom [God] did foreknow, He also did predestinate". It is true that we are, "elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ".
It is true: Our names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world. It is true that those who were ordained unto eternal life, believed.
Predestination, however, places its emphasis upon the exceeding riches of grace which God has purposed for us in Christ. It has to do mostly with ordained blessings, which lie beyond salvation and effect our lot in the ages to come.
When God created Adam and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, Adam opened his eyes upon an earth beautifully equipped and fully supplied. There was nothing lacking that nature could impart, and everything was pronounced good.
When God called us unto eternal life, He had every spiritual blessing, every Millennial blessing, and every after-the-Millennial blessing which unborn ages will reveal, all afore prepared in His will and purpose. Some day we will open our eyes upon all of these predestinated and before arranged blessings.
The believer is not born into a realm of uncertainties; his ship is not floundering about, without a steersman at the helm. Jesus Christ has his whole life mapped out. He holds His children in His hand. He goes before them and picks out the place where they shall pitch their tents. He has prepared wonderful things for those who love Him.
When, at last, we stand with Christ in Glory, having entered into the possession of the things before ordained, we will find that there hath not failed one good thing of all that was promised.
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR