God's Eternal Purpose

Introduction

  Christ - Everything at once!
 
In writing about Christ and the eternal purpose of God, we must be cautious concerning the temptation of wanting to put this into categories or bits and pieces. While this is true with all spiritual things, it is especially true here. For it is here that we have lost the greatness of the Father and the purpose He has in His son. To make it into another fragment or disjointed tidbit of so-called “doctrine,” would be a futile, hopeless, endless misapprehension of who Christ is. Once one sees the greatness of Christ in all of His fulness, it totally demolishes this human concept.  

So having said that, may God grant us all eyes to see and ears to hear as we open our hearts fully to the revelation and receiving of Jesus Christ.  

It has been revealed to us by Christ Himself that He is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. Of course when He says this He includes everything in between also. In other words – He is everything all at once: eternal.  This doesn’t mean that he had a beginning somewhere and then grew into becoming the end – for He had no beginning and He has no end: Again, He is eternal.  We are told that everything that is the Father has been fully indwelt inside of Christ. When we see Christ we see the Father. This of course happened before there was even a creation.
 
So when we have Christ, we have all of who the Father and Son are. When we believe, we don’t receive part of Him, we receive all of Him.  

Let’s look at one example of this. When Jesus waited until Lazarus died and came back to resurrect him, He was told by Lazarus’ sister that she believed that he would be raised on the last day, to which Jesus responded to her that He was the resurrection and life. The resurrection wasn’t simply a one-time event that would happen in future, the resurrection was a person. The resurrection was an all encompassing reality that fully indwelt Jesus Christ. He was the resurrection.  

In other places we see that Christ reveals that He is the way, the truth, and the life. He is revealing to us that the way is a person, the truth is a person, and the life is a person. They literally exist as Him, complete in Him at the same time. They are Him.  

We must again open ourselves to the Lord Jesus Christ as one who completely, totally, fully embodies all of who the Father is at once and eternally.  

Patience, love, hope, longsuffering, faith, among all other Godly attributes, again, are Christ the person, they are not unattached things or characteristics.  

What does this have to do with the eternal purpose? The eternal purpose is a person too. The eternal purpose is Christ. All that the eternal purpose entails is embodied in Christ; it is who He is. All that the eternal purpose is the Father has centered in His Son. It is one purpose, single, unified, whole in Christ.  

As we search out and explore God’s only purpose, we will discover that all of it is placed in and is Christ Jesus our Lord. That purpose is total and complete with nothing that can be added to it. Still as we are taught, it is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the glory of the king to search a matter out. And we are kings and priests unto our God, so we are called to search and explore the depth, height, and width of the eternal purpose the Father has imparted in His Son.  

But we are not called to search it out as some fragmented, fractured idea that is dissected and separated from the person of Christ. Rather we are to see this purpose in Christ as our Father sees it: fully dwelling in Christ. All the fullness of God dwells in Christ, and He totally embodies all that the Godhead is.  

This was before creation, outside of space and time, completely whole and complete. Christ is the beginning, middle, and end of all of this, and when we believe in and receive Christ within, all that God is comes at once. The alpha and omega as Christ is entirely dwelling wholly within our spirits - Not part of Him but all of Him.
 
We must see that all of the purpose of God is in Christ Jesus our Lord. We must see our Lord as completely whole and unified as the Father’s purpose. This is the beginning of seeing how truly great our God is!