Have
we seen yet that we are completely free to live within the world we
choose? We can go down one road or
another and it becomes our road but what sort of world we find as we travel
along the road is completely up to God.
The Hebrews did not determine the sort of country they would have when
first they chose a wilderness and then Palestine. In neither case was it up to them when the
manna fell or didn't, when the storms arrived or stayed away, what hills sprang
up along the way and how much dew settled upon their tents. We choose a home but our Lord decides how
that home will be. Heaven is not up to
us to build and Hell cannot be demolished by human hands. When the poor beggar chose Abraham's country,
he could not make it more delightful and when the wealthy Lazarus selected
Hell, he could not take down its sorrow.
God sovereignly rules over the worlds but we are kings of the road. The man or woman who calls for the Law of his
or her own way must accept the Law to the end God has determined. But whoever opens the door to Grace has Grace
in its all its wild unpredictability.
The wine that came out of the water pots was from Jesus but the water
that was poured into them came from the friend of the groom. We each live within the economy of our choices
but the value of the coin we have in our pocket is decided by God. God's commands are built on the construct
of choice. We do them or not but His
rewards for keeping them are not our choice; they flow out of the Sovereign
will of our Savior's Cross. He chose to
take away our Sin, we did not. He chose
to put together a home for us, we did not.
Choice for humanity started in the Garden of Eden...the Garden was not
our choice nor was the deconstructed world where Adam and Eve found themselves
later but at the point between the two, choice was theirs. Take the low road of
"my will" and you have what follows. Take the high road of "sovereign
grace" and every command of God will lead you up and in to a world
prepared for you by the same Lord who died to save you.
"Set up road signs; put
up guideposts. Take note of the highway, the road that you take. Jeremiah 31: 21 NIV
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