God takes aim at a specific target, with every soul that He saves. The bullseye God is aiming at with every soul that He saves is the glory and praise of Christ. He is the power and the point to our sanctification, discipleship and joy

Colossians 1:15-20, Ephesians  1:18

“Everything”. “All”. “The entire thing”, “All of it”. 

These words leave nothing out. They entail everything. There is one word in the New Testament that describes all of these words: πάντα.It literally means “everyone, everything, all things”. When Paul uses it in Colossians chapter 1:16, he writes, “all things were created through him and for him”.

When God created the world, it was in view of His beautiful Son.

His election of sinners before time began was in, through and aimed at the supreme worthiness of Christ and God has so ordered our lives, that they might ring with the supremacy of God in Christ.

Mark Jones, author of “Knowing Christ”, wrote in relation to Colossians 1:15-20, “.

“Christ did not come into the world for you. You came into the world for Christ”. While I believe this statement needs some nuance, I do think that this gets to the point of the entire Bible: Soteriology is aimed at Christology. The power of our Soteriology is Christological.

Christ is both the power and the aim of our salvation, because He Himself is the aim of all things.

There is so much power glory and beauty in Christ that Sin, Satan, the flesh and the world have no chance whatsoever.

When God saved Paul, God took Paul’s life and fired it like an arrow at the bullseye of the glory of Christ. This is why our salvation is untouchable: Because it is infused with the power of the glory of Christ.

Our salvation will never fail, because of the glory and worth of the object of our salvation. If you want assurance of salvation, look no further that the power of Christ.

The target that God struck with Paul’s redeemed life was not ministry, it was the exaltation of Christ.

The target that Christ is striking over and over and over again with the lives of all who put their faith and trust in Christ, is the unending eternal glory of Christ.

It is why God puts breath in our lungs and strength in our bodies.

May God take aim with our lives and strike dead center at the the eternal glory of Christ.

May Christ get all the glory He so richly deserves, for He is just so worthy.