According to His Will – Alistair Begg
Our belief in God's wisdom supposes and necessitates that He has
a settled purpose and plan in the work of salvation. What would creation
have been without His design? Is there a fish in the sea or a bird in the air
that was formed by chance? No; in every bone, joint, and muscle, sinew, gland,
and blood-vessel, you see the presence of a God working everything according to
the design of infinite wisdom. And will God be present in creation, ruling over
all, but not in grace? Shall the new creation have the fickle genius of
free will to preside over it when divine counsel rules the old creation? Look
at providence!
We know that not even a sparrow falls to the ground without our
Father. Even the hairs of your head are all numbered. God weighs the mountains
of our grief in scales, and the hills of our tribulation in balances. And shall
there be a God in providence and not in grace? Shall the shell be ordained by
wisdom and the kernel left to blind chance? No; He knows the end from the
beginning. He sees in its appointed place not merely the cornerstone that He
has laid in fair colors, in the blood of His dear Son, but He sees each of the
chosen stones taken out of the quarry of nature, placed in their ordained
position, and polished by His grace. He sees the whole from corner to cornice,
from base to roof, from foundation to pinnacle. In His mind he has a clear
knowledge of every stone that will be put in its prepared space, and how vast
the structure will be when the capstone is set in place with shouts of
"Grace! Grace!" In the end it will be clearly seen that in every
child of God, Jehovah did as He planned with His own; and in every part of the
work of grace He accomplished His purpose and glorified His own name.
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