For 23 years I have taught relentlessly, never perfectly, always passionately on the sovereignty of God in salvation. The tension between God's work in salvation and man's necessary response troubles many, many people. Myriads of people struggle to accuratelyarticulate sovereign electing grace in biblical harmony with necessary human choice; and do so without diminishing one or the other. This week I experienced something so vivid it woke me up to a reality. Like a framing hammer hitting me over the head I came to this sad but evident realization:Many Christians will correctly fight for all they are worth to protect the truth that mankind must make a personal, conscious, free choice to accept Christ as Savior, but will not allow God, the ultimate Uncaused Cause of the Universe to make a personal, conscious, free choice of them to be saved.
How sad! How emptying of His glory. Isaiah 42:8
Soli Deo Gloria
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