A Believer's Biography

This past week I had the occasion to write concerning each member of my childhood family, I wrote the following concerning myself:

“As for me, God has dealt with me like Jacob: despite some awful life choices, God has put me in a providential stream that has prevented me from bringing disaster on myself. The current of His grace has been too strong for me to resist, so I have been uncooperatively but happily brought to where I am. As David wrote, “The boundary lines have fallen out for me in pleasant places.” But I did not draw them, God did, and He put up a fence to keep me in.”

As I reread it, I was so blessed in my heart to know it is true – true of me and true of every son of Jacob in this world. Does it not fill you with wonder that you have been singled out by God for eternal blessings, and forcefully and providentially made to walk in His way of life? Can you not look back on a life of foul-ups and outright rebellions and be dumbstruck that God has preserved you in them all? Oh, the sovereign grace of God: rejoice in its past accomplishments, rest in its future provisions and proclaim its glories to all around you!