Does God save us because we choose Christ, or did God determine, by His sovereign will and according to His pleasure, those who would eventually choose Christ. Calvinists, Arminians, and Calminians seem to agree that all men are, in the end, not saved. Forgetting for the moment the debates around election and free will, the question this morning is: “Why does God save anyone at all?”
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. John 6:37
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. John 6:39
“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. John 7:42
Now there’s a HUGE thought! Jesus came to earth to seek, save, and keep those whom the Father determined to present as a love gift to the Son!
“Salvation is primarily for the honor of the Son, not the honor of the sinner. The purpose here is not to save you so you can have a happy life, that’s a by-product. The purpose here is to save you so that you could praise the Son forever and ever and ever. . .Every redeemed individual is a part of an elect, redeemed humanity that is a gift from the Father to the Son.” – John MacArthur
Now there’s food for thought!
The Battle Cry 
I know this is true but it’s really hard to grasp. To imagine we were created all for His glory and honor – it really never was about us, was it? It’s all about Him. I’m ok with that…some people hate this thought. I suppose it’s because they can’t imagine it not being about them.
It causes me to fall down before Him in utter thankfulness.
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Good Morning Michelle!
It’s hard to grasp even as a believer, I think. It’s impossible to grasp for anyone apart from Christ.
We grow up in churches that say ‘it’s all about Him’, but practice ‘it’s all about us’. Christian book stores are full of ‘all about us’ stuff. So even God’s children are deceived, by ‘Christian’ leaders to whom they look for guidance, and it breaks my heart.
One one hand, knowing that my very salvation is first about God’s honor and glory and NOT about me goes down hard. On the the other hand, the thought that, as a believer, I am part of a ‘love gift’ from the Father to the Son makes my spirit soar!
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Dan,
those were some truly beautiful verses!
I agree with Michelle, I fall down in utter thankfulness to the one who’s responsible!
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Amen!
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