Reformed Theology
What is it?
Let me state up front
I have my limit.
I am not too sure
How salvation works
Since I am neither a Calvinist
Nor Arminian expert.
What I do know
Is that salvation works,
I have the witness of the Spirit
Thus, I need no expert.
This is not a boast;
Certainly not in myself,
I am totally dependent on Christ
For my spiritual health.
It is he that assures
Through the Holy Ghost
That one is saved by grace
With no grounds to boast.
If any is in doubt
About God’s saving grace
Just remember troubled one,
Christ took our place.
If you have the witness
Of the faithful Holy Spirit
Then the saved life will show
As a daily habit.
A transformed life
Not of reformed theology
And not of Calvin or Arminius-
Sorry, no apology.
It may be healthy
To debate between the two
But both had to be born again
Like me and you.
The Nicodemus-lesson
Is relevant to all,
It is a God-given privilege
To receive God’s call.
You must be born again
Is the command given,
By faith one accepts Jesus Christ
And that one is forgiven.
One is not reformed
Rather, one is transformed
And to the image of the Christ
That one is conformed.
Romans 8:29
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.
“Among many brethren”
Here the elect is the focus;
The first born among the many
Being the resurrected Jesus.
The model, if you please,
Not that he was born again
But that we should be like him
And function in his name.
If this is reformed theology
I don’t even know,
These days it’s not to theologians
But to the Word I go.
Jesus is the Living Word
And the focus of the written,
God’s elect comprises all them
Whose sins are forgiven.
Neither Calvin nor Aminius
Matters much to me,
My desire is to be like Jesus
Whose face I shall see.
And when that time come
I shall see him just as he is,
Now, I see through a glass darkly
But in him I move and live.
Stewart Russell © May 16, 2024
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