God is altogether sovereign in
the distribution of His saving grace. By Charles Simeon The
sovereignty of God's bestowal of saving grace is that which
constitutes its first and most distinguishing feature. Without
understanding this, we can never have any just conception of God's
grace at all. If we suppose God to bestow His
saving grace on account of men's merits, then we undermine the
principal foundation of our gratitude and take honour to ourselves
in exact proportion as we ought to give glory unto Him. A very
little reflection will suffice to show us that God is altogether
sovereign in the distribution of His saving grace. Who made
the difference between the apostate angels and fallen man? What was
there in us rather than in them that induced God to provide a
Saviour for us when no such mercy was given to them? Who has made
the difference between the benighted heathen and ourselves? How have we merited that God
should send the light of the gospel to us when they are left
in spiritual darkness and given up to follow their own delusions? Every Christian is constrained
to conclude, by the grace of God, I am what I am. 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse
10. For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you
have that you did not receive? We must confess that it is God
and God alone who has made any of us to differ. Matthew 11 25-27
I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you
have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed
them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your
good pleasure. All things have been committed
to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the
Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son, and those
to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.