Proverbs
16:1 KJV
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the
tongue, is from the LORD.
The commentaries mostly say
that this verse offers a contrast so that it means that men can make all the
plans they want, God gets the final word. But I prefer to understand it just as
it reads; that God both prepares ours hearts and gives us the answer of our
tongues. We are free moral agents. But we will learn in the final day that we
have done nothing but that God had not first decreed it.
I find more comfort in the
assurance that God is in control than I can give expression. Only those who on
the outside of a relationship with the Lord would question the goodness of God
in whatever preparations He has proposed in the hearts of men. I, for instance,
am not perturbed by the thought that some have been condemned to hell because
they lived in a land without a Christian witness. I am sure that God has gotten
a missionary to every man in every age who would have listened.
- God’s plan for salvation for the
believer
- God’s sentence of condemnation upon
the unbeliever
- God’s rapture of the saved before
the Tribulation
- God’s delusion upon the lost during
the Tribulation
- God’s sentence of the lost to the
It is all within the ranges of
the goodness of the Lord.
And I will trust Him.
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