Isn't that something. A high Calvinist. My My I just can't imagine one so high as those Calvinist right here. They all think of them selves as being higher than anyone else. Even other Calvinist. Truthfully those thinking of them selves being so high reminds me of Satan trying to be higher than God. LOL!
Honestly sir,
I can't think of anyone who considers themselves so low and abased as to genuinely and soberly know, deep down and because the Bible told them so,
that their gift of eternal life had absolutely nothing to do with their own efforts, and they then thank the Lord out of a true and heartfelt gratitude realizing that God could have just as easily passed them up in favor of just about anyone else.
In other words, He
could have made them a vessel of
wrath, instead of a vessel of
mercy.
He could have decided to leave them right where they were at before He blessed them with the new birth, and never made them aware of their situation by allowing them to keep on rejecting His words as unimportant...as most men do when they hear them preached.
That He chose
them to salvation is the most amazing and humbling gift that anyone could ever have...
To know the God of creation and His Son, for all of eternity ( John 17:2-3 ), while the rest of humanity outside of Christ goes to the Lake of Fire to be punished for their sins, and deservedly so.
To be
made accepted in the beloved by the kindness and mercy of a loving God, and to be found in the favor of a Saviour who could have simply let them go on in their delusion, darkened in their hearts and minds, slaves to sin and debauchery, satisfied with this world and its lusts and diversions, and never
ever thinking for a moment that anything was wrong in how they were treating His holiness.
I praise Him every day for His gifts, because I know that outside of them I would have no hope...
Either in this life or the one to come.
Do you think of
any of that when you look back on the day that you first heard God's word, and realized your need of a Saviour... because
outside of His mercy and grace you knew
for sure that you were a goner?
I do, sir, and I don't think very highly of it
at all.
