![]() ![]() Only by grace can we continue to believe we can persist in willing God's will only as we are seized upon by a benign power that will overcome our natural bent to unbelief. He is the Author of our faith as He must be the Finisher. God has indeed lent every man the power to lock his heart and stalk away darkly into his self-chosen night, as He has lent to every man the ability to respond to His overtures of grace, but while the "no" choice may be ours, the "yes" choice is always God's. The right of determination must always remain with God. OUR "ACCEPTING" AND "WILLING" ARE REACTIONS RATHER THEN ACTIONS. Tozer begins by discussing different aspects of the Christian faith, and how willing we are, as a rule, to settle for just sort of a cow-like behavior of coming to church when we’re supposed to, sitting in the pews, and then going home. ![]() Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. The master choice is His, the secondary choice is ours. But back of all this and preceding it is the sovereign right of God to call saints and determine destinies. We hear God say, "Whosoever will, let him come." We know by bitter experience the woe of an un-surrendered will and the blessedness or terror which may hang upon our human choice. ![]() God has made us in His likeness, and one mark of that likeness is our free will. ![]()
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