God’s free, holy, sovereign will

Posted by Gary on May 18, 2012

Psalm 115:3 “But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.”

“God is that Being, for whose will no cause or reason is to be assigned, as a rule or standard by which it acts; seeing that, nothing is superior or equal to it, but it is itself the rule of all things. For if it acted by any rule or standard, or from any cause or reason, it would be no longer the will of GOD. Therefore, what God wills, is not therefore right, because He ought or ever was bound so to will; but on the contrary, what takes place is right, because He wills it.” (Martin Luther: The Bondage of the Will)