Today's worship meditation, and the closing thought of my sermon. Probably proves that I'm not a Calvinist. But we already knew that.
"He will save assuredly; yet he will do so just in the way he has promised. But in what way has he promised? On our willing it, and on our hearing him. For he does not make a promise to blocks of wood."
—St. John Chrysostom
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From a Calvinist's point of view, I have no disagreement with the statement as it is, especially coming from Chrysostom, who had a rather high view of sovereignty, especially for his day:
“God has placed each part of the body where he has chosen, so we must not enquire any further as to why he has done it the way he has. For even if we could come up with ten thousand explanations, we would never find one better than this – that it pleased the Creator to make it the way he chose.” (Source: Chrysostom, in The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: 1-2 Corinthians. Ed. By Gerald Bray ((Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1999)) p. 126.)
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