John 5:26
http://booksteps.com/2008/04/07/john5-26/
I must be, in some sense, “alive” in order to want to remain alive or become truly or more fully alive. I think this dynamic points again to the reality that God initiates and originates all the good He does for me: He gives me my very self and the context in which to want and need Him. General Grace and Revelation precede the Special and the Specific, just like natural heirs precede the spiritual ones (Cain and Abel, Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, etc.), and natural birth precedes spiritual rebirth.
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