PREDESTINATION RUMINATION

I heard a preacher explain predestination this way: as you go down the road, you see a sign. It says, "Whosoever will may come." You come, and as you continue on that road past the sign, you turn around and see the back of the sign. It reads, "Chosen from the foundations of the earth." He said that somehow both are true. The front of the sign is what I think I am responding to, but the back of the sign shows that God was sovereign the whole time.

The kicker is that the illustration was given by a Calvinist, not an Armenian. (I am almost a Calvinist in all points, but don't fully buy into any of the points of Calvinism, if there can be such a position.) So, I say, "I choose, I am chosen, it is a mystery!" And I go merrily on my way, eternally secure in the Beloved.

That's the simple conclusion that keeps me sane.
-ken