Ephesians 1:5, "In love having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will."

I wanted to pen for you one of the best examples of the basic biblical truth of Predestination that I know of. 

Imagine if you were a parent and you saw your baby girl running from your side straight toward the road into head-on-traffic!  What would you do if you yelled for you precious child to stop and they kept running for the road when the car is headed right where your child is about to go?  Like many other parents in this predicament you would swiftly dart to your beloved child and grabbing them firmly you would yank them from certain death.  

Now, here is the question: did you violate your Child's choice and will?  Yes!  The child willed to disobey you and run where they wanted to.  Yet, no parent in this situation would be questioned for such a thing, because in a most great display of love they saved their child.  This is why violating the Child's choice is not even discussed or brought up.  Yet, when God does it, stating so in the Bible (predestination), people gnash their teeth and shake their first at the King of Love!  What hypocrites we are that we allow our selves to do something, calling it love, and then demand God not to do it!

What if a parent saw their small child running straight into incoming traffic to certain death and they yelled for them to stopped, but because their child disobeyed them they allow their child to run into the road and die a horrific death!  What if the parent said they did this because they did not wish to disturb their child's so-called authentic choice and this is why did not run after them to lovingly save them from destruction.  The point is that people do not think this way and for a good reason.  If you truly, truly love a person you will violate their choice to save them from destroying themselves.  But the huge exclamation point about all of this is that all of us were that little child, choosing to disobey their Parent and running sinfully into eternal death. Romans 3:10, "As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one." 

In predestination, God is reaching through the window of time choosing to grab certain people, through His Son Jesus Christ and, violating their choices, who are willfully trying to destroy their lives, saves them to be with Him forever in Heaven, wrapped them in His Son's love.  Jesus says, John 6:65, "Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father."  That God reaches through time and saves anyone is a mystery of the greatest wonders, but it is His choice to save His enemies who hate Him and hate His lovely Son.  See, life is not about our choices, but God's, which is why He gets all the good and praise.

On the technical side for how this happens, it revolves around the basic understanding that the Holy Spirit regenerates a person first before they are able to have faith: because faith is a spiritual act.  

Jesus Himself answers this question in John 3:3, "Unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." Jesus made a profound point here.  The truth of God and of His Kingdom (Including all that is in it: His Son, His beauty and even His grace in gospel) are blinded to you, until you are born again.  The truth is this, how can you repent of your sins to a God who you cannot even see?  The oblivious fact is you do not.  Until you are regenerated or born again of the Spirit, to have spiritual life back, then you do not even have the ability to see the Kingdom of God and His Son, let alone believe or repent to Him.  This is why Paul said in 2 Timothy 2:25, "If God perhaps will grants them Repentance."  In other words, if God does not choose to blow the wind of His Spirit to you and born you again in Spiritual life, then you cannot even see His Kingdom let alone repent and have true faith.   This causing a person to be "born again" is the act of God, if you would, violating a person, because the sinful person did not asked to be born again so that they irrevocably believe and so be lavished with God's infinite love.  God gave His love to them any way.  He is just that great of a Father and of a God of all grace!

Sincerely Yours: Oshea Davis