“That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace”
(Eph. ii. 7).
Christ’s great purpose for His people is to train them up to know the hope
of their calling, and the riches of the glory of their inheritance and
what the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe.
Let us prove, in all our varied walks of life, and scenes of conflict, the
fulness of His power and grace and thus shall we know “In the ages to come
the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Jesus Christ.”
Beloved, are you thus following your Teacher in the school of faith, and
finishing the education which is by and by to fit you for “a far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory”? This is only the School of Faith.
Little can we now dream what these lessons will mean for us some day, when
sitting with Him on His throne and sharing with Him the power of God and
the government of the universe. Let us be faithful scholars now and soon
with Him, we too, will have “endured the cross despising the shame,” and
shall “sit down at the right hand of the throne of God.”