OUR END WAS FIXED BEFORE OUR BEGINNING

God lives in eternity which has no time, no past, present, or future. Eternity only has “now.” God sovereignty works out His divine purposes through election, the selection of prescreened people who have a heart and passion for God. Election is God choosing the people in time who already chose Him in eternity: This is God in eternity past prescreening people by looking into time future and seeing who would say yes to the call of the Father. God’s foreknowledge always precedes His choosing, “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined ... these He also called.” Predestination sets the boundaries of our meandering within the framework of God’s saving grace as our “steps”, our life, is ordered by the Lord. Our end was fixed before our beginning. The “now” we live is simply God’s plan being executed. Ever wonder how your name was written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundations of the world? Well... now you know...

AND THIS IS HOW IT WORKED FOR ME:

Before the first “let there be” in Genesis God, in eternity past, looked at my heart as a man living in time.  He looked beyond my sins, my short comings and my weaknesses because He had a decision to make and it would be based on only one thing; would I say yes when He called me to be one of His children?  Would I give my life, my heart and my very soul to Him?  When He seen in my heart that I would willfully serve Him, he wrote my name in the Lambs Book of Life!  Then He planned and decreed every aspect of my life to be, setting boundaries and orchestrating events of my life to make me receptive to His call, to justify me with the righteousness of Christ, to grow in me the spiritual nature and attributes of Jesus and, finally, to glorify my body with a heavenly body like His.  Then on December 7, 1999 at 7:45 p.m. like a bolt of lightning out of eternity into time the call of God came to my heart and I said yes.  At that very moment I was justified, declared righteous and placed in right standing with God through the precious blood of Jesus.  Since that moment I have been on a journey with God; the Holy Spirit is implementing God’s plan, the plan He made eons ago, and as I behold the glory of Jesus I am being transformed into His image, from glory to glory (2 Cor. 3:18). This is the Holy Spirit doing His job, manifesting Christ in me. As I learn to abide in the Spirit, setting my mind on things above , the holy nectar of God’s presence envelopes me more and more in intimate fellowship. The “now” I live is simply God’s plan being executed.  My “steps”, my life, is ordered by the Lord. And someday soon this old body of mine will also be glorified as I am changed and caught up to meet my Lord in the air.

THOSE HE FOREKNEW, HE ALSO PREDESTINED

OUR STEPS ARE ORDERED BY THE LORD

(Rom. 8: 29-30; Ps. 37:23)