Stope
Puritan Board Sophomore
Reading Institutes, Calvin says (echoing Rom. 1):
"For how can the thought of God penetrate your mind without your realizing immediately that, since you are his handiwork, you have been made over and bound to his command by right of creation, that you owe your life to him?"
I have never really resonated with this. That is, I can see that I owe God my life since He so graciously and lovingly saved me, I can see I owe Him my life and thats the only place true life exists, but I am unable to see how it follows that just by there mere fact that God created me that is a compelling reason to surrender my life to Him. Im sure Im thinking about it incorrectly, but, for example, I "made" my daughter, and there is an amount of honor due us as her parents, but does it follow that shoe owes us her life in the sense that I require/desire anything beyond just her love towards me and fellowship?
Im sure I am wrong here, I know this is a safe place to ask for clarity and so I thank you for not burning me at the stake
"For how can the thought of God penetrate your mind without your realizing immediately that, since you are his handiwork, you have been made over and bound to his command by right of creation, that you owe your life to him?"
I have never really resonated with this. That is, I can see that I owe God my life since He so graciously and lovingly saved me, I can see I owe Him my life and thats the only place true life exists, but I am unable to see how it follows that just by there mere fact that God created me that is a compelling reason to surrender my life to Him. Im sure Im thinking about it incorrectly, but, for example, I "made" my daughter, and there is an amount of honor due us as her parents, but does it follow that shoe owes us her life in the sense that I require/desire anything beyond just her love towards me and fellowship?
Im sure I am wrong here, I know this is a safe place to ask for clarity and so I thank you for not burning me at the stake