Out of Control Grace

"Salvation is a blessing peculiar to the righteous. The ungodly do not, as a rule, believe that they have any need of salvation: therefore they do not desire it, or seek after it. The righteous know that they are born in a fallen state; they acknowledge that they have destroyed themselves by personal sin; and they are conscious of a thousand dangers which surround them. Hence they need salvation, and seek it, and find it. It is to them that salvation has come to make them righteous, for until they are saved they are unrighteous, even as others; but now that salvation has come to their house, they bring forth the fruits of righteousness to the glory of God their Saviour." -Charles Spurgeon

I have been thinking about 'Sovereign Grace' a lot lately. Have you realized that Grace is out of control? That it is free, and because it is free, you cant control it? How many times do we try to control our own salvation by defining the parameters by which it comes to us. Free and Sovereign means that you dont define how much you read your bible, you dont decide how many times you witness, or who or how you witness. Because its free, and not merited, God can ask anything of us. If we earned it by what we did(merited)then we could lever God into doing what we want. But because its free, we dont define the parameters, he does, and he says,

"But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. " -1 Peter 2:9,10

The entire idea behind the divine conjunction, but, is that you did not do it. God in his power did it. He accomplished your salvation. You were dead, and he made you alive, "raised us up with him" (Eph 2:6), You were weak, and he was strong, "while we were still weak Christ died" (Rom 5:6), and when you were ungodly (stop thinking you are a good person, or that anyone else is) he died for you, "Christ died for the ungodly" (Rom 5:6).

Praise God that his grace is out of control. Out of our control.