The Sovereignty of God

As some of you know, my theology has been changing over the past year-and-a-half to two years. My beliefs have become mostly "Calvinistic" as some would call it. However, I do not even prefer to use that term, because it's of the Word of God, not of John Calvin.

I came across this quote from Jonathan Edwards this morning as I was reading about another subject. This very much describes how I've felt during these past two years...

"From my childhood up, my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty in choosing whom He would to eternal life...It used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me. But I have often, since that first conviction, had quite another kind of sense of God's sovereignty than I had then. I have often since had not only a conviction, but a delightful conviction. The doctrine has very often appeared exceeding pleasant, bright, and sweet. Absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe to God. But my first conviction was not so."
--Jonathan Edwards

It's very comforting to me that not every believer straight off the bat believes in the absolute sovereignty of God. If Jonathan Edwards of all people felt that way -- wow, that sure makes me feel a little more sane. :)

Posting this from Office 2007 Beta 2 on Vista Ultimate Beta 2

There is an option in Microsoft Word 2007 to post to your blogs. You give which blog provider you use, your username and password, and then you select which blog you want to post to. It even does images.

 

Bored out of my Gourd

Seriously. I went from working a LOT the past week and a half, to doing almost nothing at all these past two days. This is driving me insane.

Speaking of driving, it took me 2.5 hours to get to work today. I borrowed my dad's brand new GPS, and decided to take its detour routes because of a motorcycle accident that blocked I-95 for a while. There was actually another motorcycle accident -- in Maryland, I think -- this morning as well. What is it with motorcycle accidents this week? Ben Roethlisberger of the Steelers had something like 7 hours of surgery for his accident. Then again, he also wasn't wearing a helmet. Man, those things are deathmobiles. (Scott, I hope you're reading this, but probably not, since most people use MySpace, Xanga, and other slow, vastly inferior blogging mechanisms.)

I asked the Lord's forgiveness for actually losing my temper at the combination of the traffic, the GPS having some technical difficulties, and the apparent Murphy's Law (that happens almost every time) of me actually getting up much earlier than normal just so that I can start work early, only to end up with yet another traffic accident slowing me up. The GPS wouldn't respond, and I needed to know when my turn was coming up. Nonetheless, I hate it when I get that angry, I almost never do anymore, so if I do, I feel pretty junky about it. As I was getting to work, my mom happened to call me to ask me about something else, and she helped calm me down. Thank you, God, for arranging that one.

So anyway, I'm insanely bored. *sigh* I can't wait for kabobs tonight at Josh and Jadey's. Maybe I'll leave here early, make up the hours later this week, and help them cook. Ah...like old times -- Grill Day.