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Now that we see how God looks at time, we can also see how He looks at what we think of as being the "unwritten future"
When we look at the future we don't have a clue whats going to happen.
From our point of view, the future is unwritten.
From God's point of view, the future is as set in stone as the past is to us.
The future is unknown to us because it is out of our reach.
We humans cant see the future, we cant control it because we are always trapped here in front of the future by time.
But God is not trapped by time.
So in the eyes of God, the future is not only known by his foresight, it's experienced by him as much as God experiences our "now".
God is already in the future as much as He is with us right here in our "now"
So in God's eyes, all that will ever be, was known to him from before it was begun.
And, (here is the part about our salvation) this means that before the universe was created 14 Billion years ago, God already knew my eternal state.
God knew I was going to be a saved Christian.
But God did not just "page-ahead" and happen to notice I became saved on my own.
NO!
God is active always!
God is always fully involved throughout all time.
Thus God knew that my salvation was not just an accident, but that if left on my own God knew that I was eternal LOST!.
So this means that God knew from the beginning that my salvation was the direct result of HIS work!
God deserves all the credit for my salvation.
My salvation was always in God's plan from the beginning.......it had to be or else it would never happen!
So then this is what I know, that before God made the universe he yet loved me and designed me and predestined my whole life and my future so that I would fulfill His plans for me.
This is why it says that he whom God foreknew he also predestined...
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But humans are trapped in time.
We don't know the future.
And this is very real....
This is why we are told that unless we repent and believe we remain lost.
It's because we are mortal.
This is why we in the church are sent out into the world to save sinners and be the light to the world.
It's because we are all mortal.
We are trapped in time.
We don't know the future.
From our point of view, all of the future is "unwritten"
Nothing is set in stone.
This is why the people that we preach to and baptize are truly saved....
It's because we are mortal.
And mortal things are born, they die, they decide things...and the things they decide matter.
We have freewill.
It's very limited freewill to be sure, as its always within the gift granted us by our lord,
But it is none the less true freewill.
Our freewill allows us to decide things....it allows us to give our hearts to another out of love.
But freewill is also expensive.
God knew the price He would have to pay for granting us freewill.
But God considered us worth it.
