Watson: grace accounts for all

Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Meditation:
    In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.
    —Ephesians 1:11-12 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God’s will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us he makes us worthy. Proud men are apt to assume and arrogate too much to themselves, in being sharers with God. While many cry out of church-sacrilege, they are in the mean time guilty of a far greater sacrilege, in robbing God of his glory, while they go to set the crown of salvation upon their own head; but we must resolve all into God’s purpose. The signs of salvation are in the saints, but the cause of salvation is in God.
    ... Thomas Watson (c.1620-1686), A Divine Cordial [1657], Religious Tract Society, 1848, p. 139 (see the book)
    See also Eph. 1:11-12; Ps. 100:3; John 15:16; Acts 13:48; Rom. 8:26-30; 1 Cor. 2:7; Eph. 1:4-5
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You alone save. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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