God Works in All Things

God Works in All Things

Romans 8v28-30 (BSB)
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.  For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.  And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

Ephesians 1v3-10 (BSB)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.  For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence.  In love He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.

Those who are in Christ, who love God, may rest in perfect security under the shadow of his wings.

Charles Hodge, Commentary on Romans

The sanctified life is not the fruit of our labours but of God’s love.  It does not come from love alone or from our own virtue but from God.  It is all his work.

John Chrysostom, Homilies on Ephesians, no. 1

(BSB Berean Study Bible)