Called to Christ by Sovereign Grace!
" For the L ORD will not forsake His people for His great name's sake: Because it hath pleased the L ORD to make you His people ." — I Samuel 12:22 [KJV] The prophet Samuel, like the apostle Paul, "shunned not to declare all the counsel of God." — Acts 20:27 . They feared no licentious consequences from preaching the faith-establishing, soul-comforting truth of God's unchangeable love to His people. Yet Samuel encourages the people to cleave close unto the Lord, and not turn aside from following Him; assuring them, if they walked contrary to the Lord, though He would never change in His love, or cast off His people, "whom He did foreknow," yet He would change in His conduct and dealings towards them. "God will surely visit their transgression with a rod, and their iniquity with stripes; nevertheless, His loving-kindness He will not utterly take away, nor suffer His faithfulness to fail." — Psalm 89:32, 33 . Like a tender...