Laying Down the Law

You have [c]ordained Your precepts, [d]that we are to keep them diligently.  Psalm 119:4  NASB Precepts – Perhaps “ordained” isn’t quite the word we want.  We’re more familiar with this term in regard to priests and ministers, but it has a second, and perhaps original, meaning as well.  It means “to decree,” for example, when a king officially…

Divinely Ordained

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.  Romans 8:28  NASB Causes – Oswald Chambers wrote, “The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God.  In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance.”[1]  The…

Predestination

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. Psalm 139:16  NASB Ordained– Does God know everything you will do before you are born, before you make a single choice?  Does He know all men’s choices from eternity past?  And…