"It's All Him!"

"I will praise Thee for ever, because Thou has done it: and I will wait on Thy name, for it is good before Thy saints." (Psalms 52:9) Occasionally God will allow us to slip and fall, just so He can pick us up again and dust us off, and then put us back upon the path; which is why I believe that "all" in Romans 8:28 also refers to the bad; because even though God has not caused it, He has allowed it. Here is the thing about God's grace that I think we don't always totally understand, is that His grace is 100% His; it's not 50 - 50, or 90-10, or any other form of contribution on our part, because we have nothing worthy of contributing to the glorification process, nothing at all! We might think that we do, and there are many different religions and cults that embrace that; mostly because man is vain, and man's vanity loves to be satisfied. If you look just beyond the "all things work for the good", you will see the reason the Paul believes it, is because the whole process of glorification is of God, as he says in verses 29 & 30: "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified." It is pretty obvious from the list of "He's" that we do not have much to contribute in the process, but to accept what He has done for us. That reminds me of the "contract" between God and Abraham back in Genesis 15; when it came time for the contract to be signed, it was only God who signed it; Abraham only needed to accept what God had signed, and his part of the contract was not binding, because he never participated in the signing process. Does that mean Abraham did not have a part? Absolutely not, because his part was to accept the gift of grace that God had given; just as it is our part to accept God's grace that is given to us, freely and completely. God does not offer us free grace, and then say, However, this is what you must do in order to obtain My free gift; free is something that only requires acceptance, which is to be fully accepted; every bit of it... "And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth in Me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, That ye also have seen Me, and believe not. All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." (John 6:35-40)