In Perspective

The opinion between election and foreknowledge as well as between prevenient grace and irresistible grace have divided a lot of Christians. Did you choose God or did He choose you? What is God's role in the choosing and where does man's choosing start? A.W. Tozer discusses a bit of this in "Following Hard After God", which is chapter 1 of The Pursuit of God . Here are my reading and reflection notes on the section. Marked: a, Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace , which means that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man. b. Before a sinful man can think a right thought of God, there must have been a work of enlightenment done within him. c. We pursue God, only because He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. “No man can come to me,” said our Lord, “ except the Father which hath sent me draw him.”  d.  The impulse to pursue God originate s with God,  but the outworking ...

https://pixabay.com/en/users/paulbr75-2938186/ The author of Romans 6 corrects any wrong thinking a Christian might have about "free grace" and freedom in Christ. Indeed we are freely saved as we freely receive God's gift of salvation. But we ought to remember that the cost of that freedom was never free. God exacted the full cost of that freedom on Christ, and we see the weight of that sacrifice in John 17. Christ agonised in the garden of Gethsemane for over what was to come. It would be the first time Christ was to taste death. As God, He was not familiar with that. He was and is forever alive. It would be the first time Christ will face separation from the GodHead. As God, He has never experienced that. From eternity past, the triune God was one, always together, never apart. And now, at one point, the Father would have to turn away from God the Son as Christ the Messiah, man's one and only perfect offering, bears the sin of all mankind. The way to freedom...

https://pixabay.com/en/users/DaKub-8222964/ Here is a piece I wrote for Godinterst.com: Let's Talk About Grace

allsonsanddaughters.com Here is a piece I wrote for Godinterest.com: Will Your Grace Run Out?