The Living God

From chapter 39 of Particular Grace: A Defense of God's Sovereignty in Salvation by Abraham Kuyper (translated and edited by Marvin Kamps), pages 336-342. _________ Our God is not a clock that merely runs mechanically, but a living, thinking, desiring being, who accomplishes his will through speaking. Likewise, man is not a block or a stone or an animal or a machine that can be worked with silently, but a being with a consciousness upon whom an effect must be wrought in a way ordinary among...