When God created you, He brought you into existence. You didn’t help Him. It was His sovereign work that brought you to life biologically. Likewise, it is His work, and His alone, that brings you into the state of rebirth and of renewed creation.
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Is it bad that the first thing that comes to my mind with this quote isn’t about God’s sovereign work, but a wise crack about who did help bring me into existence? Clearly my theological education hasn’t been a help to me.
Sometimes I have to get the wisecracks out of the way before I get to the serious thoughts. I think wisecracking is handy that way; it gets the pump going.