If God did not choose me before the world, then I will most certainly go to Hell. But I have committed to Him my whole salvation. The LORD will do what He pleases with me. He is the Creator, I am but a mere creature.
This is true as a fact. But I think it is also a fact that He will save those who come to him and you have that as an absolute promise, and yes, as an absolute invitation. And the fact that you come to Him is your best evidence of your election. But in a sense that indeed is something that you do, even if God gets all the glory for you doing so. Calvinism has "layers" as it were, with some making such an emphasis on God's sovereignty that they leave nothing for men to do to be saved - and they include believing. But they do believe and so most extreme Calvinists who have normal human self esteem come to the conclusion that they are indeed elect. But what if they don't. I think of William Cowper who struggled with this. He wrote a poem called "The Castaway", which is about a man swept overboard and who struggles for awhile and then sinks, with no hope of rescue. Sad as that poem is, the last stanzas take a different turn, and knowing Cowper's struggles, it makes for one of the saddest things you will ever read:
"I therefore purpose not, or dream,
Decanting on his fate,
To give the melancholy theme
A more enduring date:
But misery still delights to trace
It's semblance in another's case.
No voice divine the storm allay'd,
No light propitious shown;
When, snatched from all effectual aid,
We perish'd, each alone;
But I beneath a rougher sea,
And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he."
I hope it turned out alright for Mr. Cowper but we need to keep in mind that Calvinism without a real and actual offer of the gospel to anyone who will believe has committed a serious error in it's application to people, even if it might be correct in the metaphysics of the theology. There is indeed something you must do. You must believe in Christ, and you have a warrant to tell people so.
