How sovereign is the sovereignty of God? Is His sovereignty limited to choosing and calling those who make up His called out company of believers or is it extended to all human beings and indeed, to His whole creation? Does God open the eyes of a few to the saving power of Jesus Christ in the life of a woman or a man to make a few holy people to be plucked from the fire as being special persons or is this calling a detail in the larger plan of God for all of His creation?
I am one of the ekklesia. I am one of the called out company of God, one in whom Christ Jesus has been revealed. I am nothing special though by God's mercy, I have been saved. I am not even any more special than a hitler or a ted bundy. If God can show mercy upon me, then He is able to show mercy upon anyone, even Hitler and Ted Bundy. Such is the limitless power of Jesus Christ in the life of a believer. As a disciple of Jesus Christ, I am a living example of the limitless mercy of God and the fullness of His Sovereignty in bestowing mercy upon sinful human beings. I am not an example of my own holiness for I have none. All of my holiness is in the person of Jesus Christ. I die daily as He reveals Himself to me and in me and is actually being formed in me. I am a work in progress and the process that is taking place in me is taking place throughout all of God's Creation, for as death passed to all through the fall of Adam, so is Life being extended to all through Jesus Who reconciled the world to God by the shedding of His blood. He laid down His Life as was Sovereignly directed by His Father, that He might take His Life up again and through the power of the Holy Spirit live not only in Heaven but also within the hearts of men and woman to whom He is revealved.
It is through Jesus Christ that God does all of His visible work. It was through Jesus that the worlds were formed and established and are held together. Jesus has been with the Father always and it is in His person and in His character that the limitless Sovereignty of God is best demonstrated as it is in Jesus Christ that God is revealed to us. It is Jesus Who opens our spiritual eyes and ears to God and causes our hearts to cry, "Abba, Father!' None other than Jesus has the power to open those eyes and ears and this power is given to Him by the Father Who is in all things Sovereign.
The constant amazement to me of my walk with Jesus is the blinding and then sight giving process that is Christ being formed in me. I can read a scripture thousands of times and not see it. I don't mean not comprehend it but literally not see it until just the right moment that God has chosen to reveal it to me. I am no more Sovereign over my own spiritual growth than I was over the moment that I first believed in Jesus. In that moment, though I had almost no knowledge of God, I was completely saved from the curse of sin and death. In fact it was not in that moment of revelation that I was saved, in truth, it was my true condition that was revealed to me. I found out that I am a child of God through the shed blood of Jesus Christ by which the world has been reconciled to God and the Way of salvation opened to all.
At the moment of my personal revelation, I began seeking the personal direction of God in my life. In that seeking, I have found that He has in fact always directed my life and all of the mistakes I have made, all of the evil I have feared and committed, all of my blindness and deafness, were all under the Sovereign direction of God. All of the purpose of demonstrating the power of Jesus in my life as He pours out His mercy upon me in each instance. God's Soveregnty has no limits in or over me.
Though my eyes and ears have not yet been fully opened and I am often blind and deaf to God, as to His design in the life of another human being, I am learning to trust the character of Jesus Christ beyond what my mind can know. God is not a respecter of persons and He is sovereign over all and able to reveal to each what is in His plan to reveal and very able to bring every woman and man to the point of bending the knee and confessing Jesus as Lord; just as He brought me to that point in my life. Though someone I love seems to be far from God, I no longer fret. I know that the Jesus Who loves me also loves them more than I and I am learning to trust the process of Jesus being revealed in me enough to trust that same process in all and over all. As He has made me who was once a vessel of dishonor through His mercy a vessel of honor, so too is He able to cleanse and put to good use every dishonorable vessel. He knows exactly what is required in the life of each individual to bring them to their moment of revelation as the Kingdom is established in each heart through Jesus.
There is no limit to the Sovereign love, mercy, justice, and righteousness of God and none of those characteristics are in conflict within the person of Jesus Christ; but are conflicting only in the limited character of humankind seeking self-direction rather than surrendering to the personal direction of God. In the fullness of the dispensation of time, that limit of human conflict will also be shown to be folly as Christ's Kingdom is fully revealed and all men will see it together. Amen.
Behold the Lamb of God! Without spot or blemish sent to die for the sins of the world, bearing the full weight of transgression in His own body. My Son, you are, and will always be, the Risen Lamb of God, whereby you took the leaven of the world, having completely unleavened all men once for all time by your blood, having been the perfect sacrifice for sin, acceptable to God, whereby men have been reconciled to the Father; they themselves becoming once again My sons and daughters free to enter the Garden and My love, which they shall never again be separated; their new life lived in and for Christ Jesus, the Lord and Savior, in whom I am well pleased. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 5 - Unleavened]