… We search and crave for “The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life’. And that so often comes between us and the most wonderful experience of all. The ultimate object of salvation is not merely to keep us from hell, not merely to deliver us from certain sins; it is that we may enjoy ‘adoption’, and that we may become ‘the children of God’ and ‘joint-heirs with Christ’. The ‘summum bonum’ [highest good] is to ‘see God’, and while in this life, to know God intimately as our Father, and to cry ‘Abba, Father’. Have you ever known it? This is what is offered us in the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. God forbid that any of us should stop at any point short of it!
–D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Sons of God: Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 (Romans Series)
