The Third Heaven – Our Celestial Destiny

All of us are designed to go somewhere. Father is preparing us to live out our distinct individuality in the consummation; He is preparing us for that place that will, in the end, fulfill all the definitive dreams of who He is now in the process of making us to be.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we
ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. – Ephesians 3:20

This understanding of Father and His plan, and our perfect place in it, was echoed with great discernment many years ago by A.P. Adams (1847-1925):

God has a definite purpose in the creation of everything – a definite end in view – and that end is certain to be reached sooner or later. In other words, every creature ultimately fulfills the purpose of the Creator in its creation. For us to suppose otherwise would be to suppose a failure on the part of the Creator, which is unthinkable. The believer’s attitude toward God then might be thus expressed:

God has created me for a definite purpose. That purpose I shall ultimately fulfill in His economy. It is a wise and good purpose, one with which I should be perfectly satisfied and contented if I only understood it all. Toward that end I am continually moving. All things tend to advance me in that one direction, and I shall surely arrive. I shall surely fulfill the purpose of my creation.

It is a great satisfaction and pleasure to think of our relationship to God in this light, for God has something in His mind to make of me, and I shall surely become that something. Furthermore, since God is wise and good, that something will please and satisfy me perfectly. When I reach the place for which God created me, and for which He has fitted me, then I shall have no regrets that it is not another place.

I shall realize that it is my place and shall be satisfied, perfectly satisfied with the accomplishment of the ever blessed and good will of God in me.

Thus may the trusting child rest in God both for himself and for the whole creation, and with the utmost confidence he may commit all of his interests to Him “as unto a faithful Creator”

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God
commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing,
as unto a faithful Creator.
– I Peter 4:19