Choosing the Planned Knowing - A Poem By David Ahlgren

An original poem by one of our newer folks:

Choosing the Planned Unknowing

(1 Pet 1:2, 2 Tim 1:9)

We who have been called out of darkness
      Into His marvelous light by our choosing –

We were first drawn by His choosing;
      God knew us before time through the cross.

By setting limits in advance He guided us,
       Before we could hear the good news;

Such grace to choose us out of the world --
       What mercy to call us to believe when heard!

So God foreknow, predestined, and called,
        Giving us the means to choose Christ as Savior;

Yet still sovereign in the election to know --
        That each of us could believe when told...

So ordained we elected to choose life,
         Faced with our sin we chose the sacrifice;
Born again we were made alive in Christ;
        Eyes opened we know no darkness but light.

Appointed to eternal life we believed,
        Chains of sin no longer enslaving;

The wonder that God knew from the start,
         Eden's plan led to the Lamb for our saving!