Regarding God and His salvation, Pierre
Gilbert writes He will never take anyone
against his or her will…really? Pierre goes on to say that it's as if to sign permission before God can make a move...truly?
What about miracles? What about grace?
To say that God needs our permission
to have Him respond with us is to say that it all depends on us. I can’t see that this can be true. In fact the truth is that God first loved us,
the truth is He acts first and then we act.
To say that we need to give permission for Him to act in us is to say
that we are the one that matters.
God can, God will and God does
act despite us, whether we have given permission or not, He does not wait for
us to make the first move. No, He moves
first. Sometimes, He rushes in like He
did with Saul, knocking the wind out of you, sometimes He lights a fire right
in front of you, sometimes He calls you out of the fields and blesses you. Sometimes
despite everything you do, He says you are a man after His own heart and
sometimes He says here is the way walk in it.
God does not need permission to do what He has
in mind to do. If He wants you, there is
none who can stop Him, nothing you do, nothing you say and nothing you
sign. We have all heard the stories,
miracles told of how God saved, how He redeemed and how He did everything to
bring some to their knees…God moves people.
It is God who finds us where we are and moves us to Him.
It's as if God ‘signed the papers’ they are signed in creation, signed on the
rainbow and then signed again in blood sealed with the cross.
Any signing we do only has to do with being faithful, trusting, loving
and following a God who loved us first.
He will take anyone against their
will, if He wills it, He will do it. And
we will be amazed at the miracle…and we will be amazed at God’s grace.
For it is by grace we have been saved, not from ourselves,
it is the gift of God.
I love that.
