RE: Pride Goeth Before Destruction
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Why wouldn't it be our choice? God is love, and free will is the purest form of love we can have. If God didn't give us a choice, we'd all be robots without the ability to choose.
Does God know who is lost and saved? For sure. But I don't think He pulls the strings. He lets us choose Him. The falling short is because, human nature....The fall of man, etc. We are a fallen species which is why we need a Savior.
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It took me a while to wrap my head around it. It takes a while for me to walk through it.
The reasoning is, how I understand it explained, God is perfect. We are not.
To be in His presence, we must be perfect.
Being human, there is no way we can make ourselves perfect. This does not mean we should not try. Our main vocation is the universal call to Holiness.
Circling back, our imperfection demands punishment, justice. But Jesus has granted us mercy, having paid for our sin. But that does not clean us to be in God's presence, to be saved.
For that we are entirely reliant on His grace. It is presumptuous to think that we can force Him to save us by any of our actions. We can't save ourselves by works.
It's the other way around. God's grace transforms us into better people. We can only cooperate with His transformation. Grace is His gift. We can't earn it. It is His grace that pushes us to perform those works, should we choose to accept it.
Therefore, it is still a personal choice to accept his gift of salvation, or reject it. But it is not we who drive our own salvation, we can only accept salvation by doing His will. In other words, good works aren't ours, they are His. We are merely His agents.
To me, this is a huge responsibility, not only to carry out His works, but to be receptive and discerning of His grace when He calls us to action. We are the driven, not the drivers. It's a free ride to salvation, if we choose to hop on the wagon and don't fall off, which we invariably will. But we can always hop back on.
Right, so it's a choice that God gives us. That's what I'm saying. I know there is nothing we can do ourselves, all have sinned and sin is the transgression of the law.
1000000% on Christ's righteousness, not ours.