“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10
The writer to the Acts wrote these words, “Known
unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” Acts 15:18
What this tells us is that God is Omniscient or all knowing and that everything
God ordained or predestinated was completed before the foundation of the world.
Most of confessed Christianity will not recognize God’s Sovereignty, nor the
ordained workings of God. In Ephesians 2:8 God said, “For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”
but God went on to say in verse 10 these words, “For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them.” Therefore, we must recognize that our salvation was
given to us because of God’s grace, and it was not of our own works or doings,
but by the working of God through Jesus Christ. Now, to make us understand the
context here God put these words in the middle of these two verses, “Not of
works…” verse 9. With all this being said, we can understand that we are saved
by God’s grace and power, through Jesus Christ, and not by anything we do, but
it is a gift from God. Then God goes deeper and says that whatever we do in our
Christian life is His ordained workings that He ordained before the world was
ever created. Since God has explained this to us in detail, we must also
recognize that God does not make mistakes nor does He do anything by chance,
but by His Sovereign ordained will and power. Since “Known unto God are all
his works from the beginning of the world.” Then we must conclude that God
will see all His ordained will thru its completion. As Christians and churches,
we were put into the church and work because God created us for that work. God
unlike man does nothing by chance, He does everything according to His ordained
will, and God never fails. We see in Numbers 23:19 these words, “God is not
a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent:
hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he
not make it good?” God is not like a man that He should not carry
through His ordained will, nor that He should not see it through. God has a
reason that He has elected people to do His will and ordained them to do His
works, it is because God purposes everything and He ordained nothing by chance.
If you understand God and His Sovereignty then you must understand He never
fails, and He knows every detail of everything because He ordained and predetermined
everything before the foundation of the world. Let’s look at the Tribulation
Period, is there a chance it will not happen? Is there any chance that it will
not happen exactly as God said it would? The answer is no because God said it
would happen and how it would happen. This means that God not only ordained it
to happen but also how it would happen. Every detail was predestinated and
ordained by God before the world began. God leaves nothing to chance because He
cannot fail. God ordained the death of His Son Jesus, but He went farther and
ordained how He would be crucified and His reaction on the cross per Isaiah 53
and other places. Because if He had not then maybe they would not have
crucified Him. How did God know the works we would do for Him, He ordained them.
God left nothing to chance, nor does God depend on the believer, God carries
through His ordained will.
