"that they may be called..."

Many people came to Jesus for healing, but not all who were healed became his disciples. And yet, the relational-trajectory of discipleship (excuse the awkward phrasing) moves from receiving from Jesus (receiving healing, receiving freedom, receiving joy, etc.) to following him, learning from him, and ministering to the world in his power. We circumvent the plan of God if all our focus is on the receiving, and little or none on the following.

You can see this trajectory foretold in Isaiah's wonderful prophecy of the coming Messiah.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
They shall build up the ancient ruins;
they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.

Note: after the list of blessings (which actually closely parallel the beatitudes), there is a sort of double purpose statement:

that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.

See it? That they (the receivers of the kingdom blessings) should be recognized as "oaks of righteousness." Not: that they may be called receivers of blessings, healed by God, etc., but that they may be called (recognized as) righteous. Now, recalling that Christ fulfilled this prophecy exactly, and recalling that, as Paul said (in many places, but this one will do), Jesus is our righteousness, then to follow Jesus as a disciple is to begin down the road to becoming "an oak of righteousness."

And then of course there is the second part of that purpose statement: "that [God] may be glorified." See? God is glorified by the righteousness that he bestows on his children. The Jesus-people will provoke, by virtue of their progressive transformation into "oaks of righteousness," the praise of the One whom they call Lord.

All this is really only a restatement of the last post. To encourage believers to think of God merely as our great need-fulfiller (and only that), is to short-circuit the call of God on the lives of his children.