God's Purpose for Us

IT is happy for our souls, and healthful too, to be occupied with God's purpose for us. Each heart knows its own bitterness, but "God is faithful," and what a cheer this is to our hearts! We need this cheer as pilgrims passing through the rough places of this world; we need to remember that we are, as it were, booked for glory. The moment Israel left Egypt, Canaan was their issue; so all who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, God will confirm unto the end, blameless, in the day of Jesus Christ our Lord. The cross and the glory go together; we have to say to the one; we have the other.