DAD'S RAMBLING – GOD'S GREAT PLAN
"Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!" (Romans 11:33)
In his contemplation about God's plan to have a people that included not only the Jews but also the Gentiles, his heart overflowed. That God would make a way for all peoples – both Jews and Gentiles – to be saved is truly beyond comprehension. The Apostle Paul had a Hallelujah explosion, and he broke out in this great chorus of praise to God.
"Who has known the mind of the LORD? Or who has become His counselor?" (vs. 34). This is not something that man thought up or human machinations. It was not a spur of the moment idea on God's part, nor was it an afterthought. God did not say, "Oh my, Oh my – what am I going to do with these humans?" Indeed, it was God's plan even before the creation of the universe. In God's infinite wisdom and knowledge, our salvation through Christ was an eternal plan. He "was foreordained before the foundation of the world" (I Peter 1:20). Revelation 13:8 tells us that Christ was "slain from the foundation of the world." God "chose us in Him (Christ) before the foundation of the world" (Ephesians 1:4).
God's plan for our salvation began before Creation, came through the first Adam to Abraham and through the Jewish nation to a young maiden named Mary, who had a son named Jesus. God was the author of it all and made sure that it all happened according to His counsel.
That is why we can rest in the fact that it is all of God's workings – not ours. Paul ends his exuberant praise with these words, "For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen" (vs. 30). As the song says, "All the glory belongs to Jesus, all the praise belongs to Him. All that I am or ever hope to be, All the glory belongs to Him."
Love, Dad
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