A typical understanding of salvation is what we are saved "from": from our sins, from spiritual death and so on. In proclaiming the gospel we are therefore calling people 'from' their old position, urging them to repent (turn) from that position to adopt the new that is freely available in Jesus Christ.
All good stuff.
Yet if we only ever concentrate on this 'call from', might we be missing something?
The writer to the Hebrews spends the best parts of chapters 3 & 4 talking not just about where we have come from, but also about where we are heading to. Yet note the real risk the author perceives of us not actually getting there, of not being able to enter the 'Sabbath rest'.
The Israelites had to cross the sea to leave the Eyptians behind and go forward towards their God intended destination. Yet even with such a dramatic departure, they later baulked at entering what was the promised land.
Biblically there is a very real sense of a call "to", to enter the restored land where things are brought to their God-intended perfection. We must therefore urge people on to what they are called to, to their restoration and being put back together. Before we even get there we can anticipate it, see examples of it forming now - just as the Israelites in the desert were able to start living a Kingdom based lifestyle.
For between the from and the to there is the journey along the way. Not always easy, in fact most likely tough and arduous. One in which we are going to have to work at and expend ourselves. An onward journey that will require continued faith that God can get us to the ultimate destination.
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