“When It Pleased God”

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: - Galatians 1:15-16

    It never occurred to me that God is sovereign over all things, only doing that which pleases Him, only when he is pleased to do so, until God in grace and mercy revealed his Son to me through the preaching of the Gospel. This great truth, which is revealed throughout the Scriptures, leaves man at the disposal of our infinite, omnipotent, just, and holy God. Contrary to the popular opinion of false preachers and false professors, salvation is of the Lord—from start to finish. Any message, any preacher, or any professor of Christianity that gives credit, ability, or the determining choice to man in the matter of regeneration is anti-God and anti-Christ.

    Salvation is in the hand of the Saviour! Grace comes only from him who said, I will be gracious! Mercy is received only from him who said, I will be merciful.

    It pleased God to choose his people before the world was made—According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4).

    It pleased God to send his Son to be the propitiation for his people’s sin—Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins (1 Jn 4:10).

    It pleases God, in his time, to call his elect to faith in Christ by the preaching of the glorious Gospel of his Son—For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased Godby the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe (1 Cor 1:21).

    It pleased God to create the world and all that is therein—Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created (Rv 4:11).

    It pleases God to uphold all things by the Word of his power—Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high (Heb 1:3). And, thank god!

    It pleased him to make us his people! For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people (1 Sm 12:22).

    What God does not do will never be done. What God has done will never be undone, because it pleased God!