Little hope have we, my friends, if our salvation depends upon ourselves; but the salvation of which the Bible speaks is rooted in the eternal counsel of God. There is no break and no possibility of break in the mighty working out of God's eternal plan. 'Whom he did predestinate, says the Bible, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 'All things work together for good to them that love God'- how little comfort there would be in those words if the verse stopped there - if we had been told merely that all things work together for good to them that love God, and then we had been left to kindle that love of God in our cold dead hearts. But, thank God, the verse does not end there. The verse does not just say: 'All things work together for good to them that love God.' No, it says: All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." There, my friends, is the true ground of all our comfort - not in our love, not in our faith, not in anything that is in us, but in that mysterious and eternal counsel of God from which comes all faith, all love, all that we have and are and can be in this world and in the world to come. pg68
All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." There, my friends, is the true ground of all our comfort - not in our love, not in our faith, not in anything that is in us, but in that mysterious and eternal counsel of God from which comes all faith, all love, all that we have and are and can be in this world and in the world to come. pg68