The Counsels of God

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“This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” Eph. 5:3232This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (Ephesians 5:32).
“God, in the solitude of His actings, breaks in upon earth’s silence and darkness to develop a sphere in which He might display His eternal power and Godhead, also His love to man” (JND).
God’s counsels called for Christ to die to provide a way that sinners from the lost race of man might have eternal life with Christ (Psa. 40; John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24)).
The center of all of God’s counsels is the Church, the Father’s gift to His only begotten Son. One of God’s chief counsels is to have a bride for Christ. The first and second creations would be incomplete without the woman — Eve for Adam and the Church for Christ. Not only is the Church the bride of Christ, but according to the counsels of God, when He gathers together all things in Christ, she is part of His inheritance.
We bow in wonder as we think of these counsels and the sublimity of divine truth. The Queen of Sheba had a burning desire to learn from Solomon of the true God. Does this desire form our lives? Or have we allowed, through worldliness, our hearts to be drawn aside, so that we have lost sight of all that lies ahead with Christ our Head — the splendor of the deep eternal counsels, which make the great things of the present world pale into insignificance?