I Shall Die on Time

“I know I shall die, and I shall die on time. Therefore, I must make the most of the moments between here and there. And the way I can make most of these moments is to live them in terms of that which I know to be absolutely true and unchanging. I will not be swayed from this conviction though my moments be short, though my moments be long.” St. Boniface

Boniface – fruit of Columba’s ministry to the Scots – Cut down the pagan oak of Thor – and brought the gospel to the Germanic tribes.

He said “I yearn to go forth where the dangers are, not because I particular enjoy those dangers, but because I know it is there that the battle rages for the soul of men and nations. God set me before the front lines. Let me not end my days in comfort and complacency.”

A.W. Tozer on Our Self Chosen Night

How deeply do men err who conceive of God as subject to our human will or as standing respectfully to wait upon our human pleasure.

God has made us in His likeness and one mark of that likeness is our free will. We hear God say, “Whosoever will, let him come.” We know by bitter experience the woe of an unsurrendered will and the blessedness or terror which may hang upon our human choice. But back of all this and preceding it is the sovereign right of God to call saints and determine human destines. The master choice is His, the secondary choice is ours. Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our “accepting” and “willing” are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.