HOMEWARD BOUND

To say “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord” is to summarize in Old Testament language God’s divine plan as seen through the eyes of the Apostle Paul in Rom. 8:29-30: Those He FOREKNEW... knew before in eternity would be His, He PREDESTINED... “before-ended”, fixing their end in time, that they might be CONFORMED... changed into the nature of His Son. These same ones He CALLED... the heart of the Father calling from eternity His chosen ones back to Himself in time, He JUSTIFIED... placed into right standing with Himself, and He GLORIFIED... providing them with abundant life flowing now into eternity. This is a picture of the “ordered life” of a “good” man... one who follows God’s precepts, a new covenant metaphor for God’s elect... His time-chosen ones who chose Him in eternity. God knows His Jewels through His foreknowledge, which captures the exercise of our free will before we exist in time. The ordering of our life, our predestination, transforms us into Christlikeness, beginning our confirmation process long before we hear the call of the Father. Our response to the Father’s call declares what He already knew, that our heart would be receptive to His call. Justification is the judicial act in the courtroom of Heaven whereby God declares us innocent... acquitted of all charges, and frees us from the bondage of enslavement to sin which held us prisoner.  Now we understand that the true glory of man is the ideal condition into which man was created by God, so glorification in the human sense is restoration. Our glorification begins with our spiritual union with Christ, progresses as we cloth our Self with Christ’s nature, and will be completed when we are “CHANGED”, when we receive our immortal bodies.  God is simply ordering our steps homeward...   

HE BRINGS RESTORATION TO OUR SOUL...