Right. So did God predestined us to do good works as Christians should be doing, or did God predestined every good work we did so we had no other choice but to do it? It's a bit hazy to me.
Neither of.
I mean at least I wouldn’t say it like that.
It is more like God knew and knows what will happen with our life.. It is same with Jesus, you remember when He said to Ananias about Saul (Paul) that …
for he (Paul)
is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake..
Also to Peter …
thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it…
God, because his goodness, because He is so good, he prepared for us even those good deeds, which we are just going to do..
I know, it seem unbelievable.. but as Paul said
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Rom11
But we, of course, have to input ourselves in those good deeds … I think... We have to let Holy Spirit.. we have to let him do the work in us, give Him space and than we will be changed
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Cor 3,18
God ..hm.. He is doing this, because He wants us to be concluded within His grace
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? Rom 11, 35
It seems to be, as if He wanted us to be His debtors, and I will be and I am His debtor, with pleasure
At least,this is how I see it, I could be wrong