according to the counsel of his will

July 23 2018

Isa 48:9 "For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.

Isa 48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.

Isa 48:11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

If we have anything to brag about, then we take some of the glory. If we say, “I was more righteous than another because I raised my hand and got up and walked down to the front and got myself saved.” Then we are trying to take the glory away from God, don't say that. Say instead, “I was born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”