Preface To The Articles
As you read through our website and our magazine, you will see that, as plainly as we are given to know how, we unashamedly declare the biblical doctrine of The Absolute Predestination of all things.
Some may think we are only riding a "hobby horse," finding predestination in everything. We have faced this accusation more than once. This precious doctrine is far more than some idle preoccupation on our part.
Predestination is a rich doctrine of practical faith. We believe we have seen the Lord's predestinated providence at work in our lives innumerable times protecting our steps, providing providential safety, spiritual guidance, and directing our thoughts, words, and actions even as He did in biblical times.
Our successes and our strengths, if we have any, are predestinated no less than our failures, our limitations, and our weaknesses. Nor is this "blaming God" for our slackness, sin, and failures. In all things we are weak and completely dependent on Him.
There Are No Accidents
It is no accident that you are reading this page at this very second. There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that nothing in this universe could have prevented you from fulfilling God's eternal decree, existing in His mind and purpose from all eternity, to be doing exactly what you are doing at this time. The Psalmist said, "My times are in Thy hand (Psalm 31.15)."
Is it not comforting to realize you cannot "die before your time," since God definitely declared from eternity that you would now be reading these words? "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure (Isaiah 46.9-10)."
Some may think we are only riding a "hobby horse," finding predestination in everything. We have faced this accusation more than once. This precious doctrine is far more than some idle preoccupation on our part.
Predestination is a rich doctrine of practical faith. We believe we have seen the Lord's predestinated providence at work in our lives innumerable times protecting our steps, providing providential safety, spiritual guidance, and directing our thoughts, words, and actions even as He did in biblical times.
Our successes and our strengths, if we have any, are predestinated no less than our failures, our limitations, and our weaknesses. Nor is this "blaming God" for our slackness, sin, and failures. In all things we are weak and completely dependent on Him.
There Are No Accidents
It is no accident that you are reading this page at this very second. There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that nothing in this universe could have prevented you from fulfilling God's eternal decree, existing in His mind and purpose from all eternity, to be doing exactly what you are doing at this time. The Psalmist said, "My times are in Thy hand (Psalm 31.15)."
Is it not comforting to realize you cannot "die before your time," since God definitely declared from eternity that you would now be reading these words? "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure (Isaiah 46.9-10)."