HIS INITIATIVE

By Rick Mathes

Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

One of the main reasons I’m not an atheist but a believer in God is that there had to be the first bump for everything to be put in motion. Then it followed that if I have intelligence the first bump must also. It all took the first initiative for all the secondary causes to be set in motion.

Upon personal reflection it is my conclusion that the cause of Christ both in essence and form is simply love. The Father is the lover, the Son is the loved and the Holy Spirit is the love between them. So it is in the human trinity of mind, heart and soul. Love permeates, encompasses and encloses love in the highest level, that which God alone has had the Holy Spirit known is known in the Son.

What else can explain His choosing you and I to be His. I’m sorry some will not accept this doctrine of election but you just can’t ignore the agreement of so many rock-solid statements of fact that support this doctrine without even mentioning predestination. Calvinism is not my choice of favorite guideposts but it is the Gospel according to the Word of God and any argument against it goes limp in the face of facts.

There is a redeeming grace that could only be initiated by God and no one else. Sin runs the depth of hell and the fallen angels wouldn’t repent in the light of day. They have no truth in them and the father of lies, Rev. Lucifer, has fallen from grace that Judas now knows cannot be recovered. Hell is home to those who belong there. The world carries on encouraging sin, forgiving the unrepentant sinners and throwing more souls on the bonfire of eternal flames.

Many are called but few are chosen. Even in my lifetime of more than 70 years of adult reflection, it appears as though evil prevails and the remnant of faithful of Jesus gets smaller and smaller. Praise God, I am a Savior’s survivor!

Once He says yes and you agree, you are preserved in Him never to be snatched into hell by the blistering hands of the evil one. Nothing can infect your soul nor condemn your flesh. We were chosen, saved and not reserved a throne in glory that is as elegant as the very one Paul is seated in right now. I began and finished it His way, all because of Him!