THE WILL OF GOD
The Lord Jesus used the wind to
declare that the Holy Spirit is irresistible over man’s will in the new birth, “the wind bloweth where it [will]…so is
everyone that is born of the Spirit.” (Jn 3: 8) Those who preach that man
has a free will say God would not violate man’s will to save us. Considering these two teachers, it is wiser to
trust God over depraved men. But beyond
that, which act of God in creation does not violate man’s will? Rain, snow, hail, and drought do. The forms they come in do: hurricanes,
tornadoes, floods, tsunamis. Fact is,
God violates man’s will every day. God does as he will in heaven and among the
inhabitants of the earth and none can stop his hand. (Dan 4:35) The only ones
unhappy that God does so in salvation are those who want to attribute salvation
to their will. The rest rejoice that God
says, “as the rain cometh down, and the
snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh
it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the
eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Is 55: 10-11)