[AlbionGirl]

Very good post, Dr. E. Here are my favorites:

"It is an exhilarating realization; I urge everyone to contemplate it. God is in complete and total control, all ways, every day, past, present, future. That's part of the job description for our God. Praise Him. Thank Him. Worship Him. Glorify Him in every thought and deed.

...

We are sinners to the end, saved from before the beginning by His mercy alone."

[Dr. Eckleburg]

It took me awhile to realize we are not saved because of who we are or what we do. We are mercifully saved in spite of who we are and what we do.

Thus, all the glory of our salvation belongs to Jesus Christ alone who did the work for us. Christ plead our case before God, and so we are judged blameless because He took upon Himself the punishment due us.

All as God ordained from before the foundation of the world.