"God's Way"

"I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because Thou didst it." (Psalms 39:9) So what should we think? "If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31) We really do not have anything else to say; nor do we have any complaints; nor should we, because God has everything under control; nothing happens by chance, it is all God's handiwork. Do you think God was not knowing that man would sin? or that He placed that tree in the Garden only to test man? Revelations 13:8 says, "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." It was His plan from the very beginning to die for our sins; even before He created the heavens and the earth, He had determined what He must do for us. That is hard for me to grasp onto, because He loved us that much; enough to take the time to not only form man from the dust, but then breath into his nostrils the breath of life; all the while, knowing in His heart that He would soon suffer and die on a cross for that which He was creating. So what do we say to that? There really is nothing that can be said, except, "To God Be The Glory!" We cannot really take the credit for anything anyways, because He knew from the beginning that we were not capable of remaining free from sin; it was the cost of love, and He knew it when He gave man free will; not because He wanted man to do whatever he wanted, but that He wanted man to choose to love Him, by choice. That is why Jesus wore that crown of thorns upon His head, because He owned that curse given to Adam after the fall; it was His curse to bear, and it was part of His plan all along... "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." (Isaiah 55:13)