The Sequence of Salvation

Can you direct the sequence of the seasons
or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens? Job 38:32

The Man came to the end of his life and decided to save himself. He marshalled his might, surrounded himself with his strengths, itemized the increase of his intellect, and wagered his wellness with his wealth. God came down and asked him just the first question in our verse for today. Can you, O Man, direct the sequence of the seasons? 

The attempt to save oneself by the presenting to God of a record of a mortal life has about as much chance of salvation as does one of us proposing that 2022 should start with winter, to get it over with, go into fall because that season is fun, then hold spring starting in June, and finally have summer to end the year because it makes travelling for Christmas so much easier. We understand the bit about ordering the seasons, but then turn right around and go back to work on that resume we will present to the Lord by way of gaining eternal life by our deeds. 

In John 3:16, that great verse we like to memorize and quote, God loves, God gives, and we have one chance to gain eternal life from the Lord's gift: believe in His Son. Believe? That's it? The Man says. Couldn't we try to organize those seasons? Man goes back to struggling with the sequence of salvation. It is still simple: God loved, God gave, believe and live. 

For God so loved even you and me,

Bucky