The Office of Christ (from George MacDonald: an anthology ed. C.S. Lewis)
"Never could we have known the heart of
the Father, never felt it possible to love Him as sons, but for Him who cast
Himself into the gulf that yawned between us.
In and through Him we were foreordained to the sonship: sonship, even
had we never sinned, never could we reach without Him. We should have been little children loving
the Father indeed, but far from the sonship that understands and adores."
Paul:
"Yet, my brothers, I do not consider
myself to have "arrived," spiritually, nor do I consider myself
already perfect. But I keep going on,
grasping ever more firmly that purpose for which Christ grasped me. My brothers, I do not consider to have fully
grasped it even now. But I do
concentrate on this: I leave the past behind and with hands outstretched to
whatever lies ahead I go straight for the goal -- my reward the honor of being
called by God in Christ." Philippians 3:12-14
You Calvinists would be wise to listen to
Paul. Your notions of predestination lie
in the past, a remote past that can provide for you no certification. Turn your back on that past and turn your
eyes on the cross, the ever present point of contact with God through Jesus.
By the way. In case you are feeling smug in
your Augustinian pride of knowledge... Notice that Paul is talking of
"Christ." God does not,
Himself, fulfill the office of Christ until He has made Himself available in
time and established the victory of the cross.
You Calvinists are in the same boat with the rest of us
sinners...predestined in Christ is available at the cross.
Come to the cross.
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