"Who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will."—Ephesians 1:11.
UR belief in God's wisdom supposes and necessitates that He has a settled purpose and plan in the work of salvation. What would creation
have been without His design? Is there a fish in the sea, or a fowl in
the air, which was left to chance for its formation? Nay, in every bone,
joint, and muscle, sinew, gland, and blood-vessel, you mark the
presence of a God working everything according to the design of infinite
wisdom. And shall God be present in creation, ruling over all, and not
in grace? Shall the new creation have the fickle genius of free
will to preside over it when divine counsel rules the old creation? Look
at Providence! Who knoweth not that not a sparrow falleth to the
ground without your Father? Even the hairs of your head are all
numbered. God weighs the mountains of our grief in scales, and the hills
of our tribulation in balances. And shall there be a God in providence
and not in grace? Shall the shell be ordained by wisdom and the kernel
be left to blind chance. No; He knows the end from the beginning. He
sees in its appointed place, not merely the corner-stone which He has
laid in fair colours, in the blood of His dear Son, but He beholds in
their ordained position each of the chosen stones taken out of the
quarry of nature, and polished by His grace; He sees the whole from
corner to cornice, from base to roof, from foundation to pinnacle. He
hath in His mind a clear knowledge of every stone which shall be laid in
its prepared space, and how vast the edifice shall be, and when the
top-stone shall be brought forth with shoutings of "Grace! Grace! unto
it." At the last it shall be clearly seen that in every chosen vessel of
mercy, Jehovah did as He willed with His own; and that in every part of
the work of grace He accomplished His purpose, and glorified His own
name.-Charles Spurgeon's Morning Meditation, July 2nd
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