Unconditional election and limited atonement are difficult concepts to grasp. just when our human, finite minds think we've got it's back to square one and going over basic principles of who God is, who we are, the cross, and how we are dead in sins and can't nor wouldn't have chosen grace even if it bit us in the butt. It is only by Gods grace that we believe in Christ and we believe in christ by election.
I've been reading through The Five Points of Calvinism by David Steele, Curtis Thomas, and Lance Quinn and one of the appendix's is A Defense of Calvinism by Charles Spurgeon. There is one part that i keep going back to because it is so clear and rich and just good. Please enjoy this.
"John Newton used to tell a whimsical story, and laugh at it, too, of a good woman who said, in order to prove the doctrine of election, ' Ah! sir, the Lord must have loved me before i was born, or else He would not have seen anything in me to love afterwards.' I am sure it is true in my case; I believe the doctrine of election, because i am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before i was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unkown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with special love."
Praise God that he loves us just because and not for anything that we could do, for surely we are only capable of sin without Him.
Grace and Peace
sarah B.
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