06/04/2023 – Chapter 29 – “Grace” group fellowship and discussion
pg. 131 – bottom of the page: “Grace and free will are not a fifty-fifty deal but a one-hundred-one hundred deal, like marriage.”
pg 132 – 2nd paragraph: “But this truth, the primacy of God’s grace should be learned after, not before we seek Him. There is an order here. In our experience, our seeking comes first, and then our finding Him. But in God’s experience, His seeking us comes first. We do not have God’s experience, only our own; but He has revealed His experience to us, and that is why we know that His grace preceded our ever seeking Him.”
But that right order at the bottom of the page #132: “
We are to thank Him for it, and for our two previous free choices (tossed it and to accept it) after it has been done.”
Soli Deo Gloria!