The closing verses in this chapter expand more fully the great theme of the believer’s eternal security. The believer is (1) predestinated for glory (vv. 28–30). This predestination cannot be altered, for it includes the present moment of time as well as the vast reaches of eternity past and future. It relates itself to the daily concerns of men, for Paul reminds us that “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according