The Bible says that God wants everybody to be saved since He loves them all.
Remember, Jesus died on the cross as punishment for all the sins of mankind.
But most people won’t be wearing white robes in heaven.
Not by God’s choice, but instead their own.
Millions of Christians have debated for billions of hours on the meaning of spiritual free will, changing few minds in the process.
I’m not into winning arguments.
That’s up to the Holy Spirit.
I will, however, point out that Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 22 clearly points to the omnidirectional love of the God and also to the obviously conditional grace of God.
Read the parable in that chapter of the king’s banquet and you can’t help but to notice that God doesn’t discriminate in who He invites to the celebration of eternal life. He does discriminate, however, on who is accepted into the banquet feast.
It’s based on their choices, not His.
You see, God already made His choice by sincerely inviting them.
Those who prepared themselves to be honor the king and the event were welcomed.
But those who thought only of their stomachs disqualified themselves.
“For many are called, but few are chosen” Matthew 22:14
I’m so very grateful that you care about the things of God. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be reading this.
Please join me in living as “chosen” people, keeping ourselves prepared with the King-honoring garments of faith such as those described below in Galatians 5:22-23 that become ours when we “put on” Christ with confession and baptism (Galatians 3:27).
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
There are people in our lives who have heard that God loves them but don’t know how to live as “chosen.”
Let’s show them so that, perhaps, they’ll choose to be among the chosen…. forever.
As always, I love you
Martin
