Ancon last year was a while ago, but something I learnt from there kind of resurfaced to the top of my consciousness recently.
After one of the question times, I was talking to the speaker, Andrew Katay, with a group of other people, still trying to get our heads around everything. I was having trouble getting my head around how salvation is 100% God's work, and 0% our work. Those who have been saved were predestined by God to be saved, but isn't it still up to them to respond and make the choice? I could understand if it were like 99.999999999% God's work and 0.000000001% our work, but obviously that's not how it is. Katay answered me with an interesting analogy: imagine yourself standing on the edge of a cliff, with God's kingdom in front of you. All you have to do to be saved is decide to fall in. Just fall. It doesn't require any work on your part.
Or something to that effect, my memory is a bit hazy after 7 months. Anyway, I don't know why I'm only remembering it now, but in typical "me" style, I decided to write something on it, and mix it up with some other unfinished verses that have been floating around in my head...
Fall
Would you like to be a superhero for one day
So you could fly away
From a world you cannot save?
In a fallen world it's not that hard to fall away
Get fooled by what people say
Find a path but then you stray
What if you could find a way back to where you belong?
Forget everything that you've done wrong?
Would you fall into grace?
'Cause nothing in this world you chase
Can earn you the place you'll have
In a kingdom where there's no more pain
Will you fall into grace?
Or will you fall away?
Everyday's the same, it's like living a recurring dream
Is the world really as it seems?
Is there really one who redeems?
Images of God walk past you on the earth
Do you know why they've been put there
Or how much their life is worth?
What if I told you it was worth the blood of Christ?
He died for you so you could have eternal life
Would you fall into grace?
'Cause nothing in this world you chase
Can earn you the place you'll have
In a kingdom where there's no more pain
Will you fall into grace?
Or will you fall away?
Do you know that eternal life is yours for free?
That's the way it was planned, before history began
You are loved more than you'll ever know
So make your choice, which way will you go?
Would you fall into grace?
'Cause nothing in this world you chase
Can earn you the place you'll have
In a kingdom where there's no more pain
Will you fall into grace?
Or will you fall away?
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2 comments:
isnt it still your decision to fall?
you make the decision to either stand there , or fall.
there is no wind that pushes you in.
its your choice.
therefore there seems to still be a small element of yourself in it.
Well, it's just an anology, all analogies have limitations, they just help you grasp that little bit of the concept you're having trouble with.
Pretend you're on the very brink of falling, and then time stops. So when it starts again, you're falling....if that makes any sense at all. Probably not.
btw which anonymous person is this? The one who *can't be bothered* to sign in? :P
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