09 - The Twofold Will of God

As I closed the previous chapter, I said that since God in Scripture speaks as if he is a man, we find in God what we can only call a twofold will. Let me explain by making three points:

1. There are two aspects to the one will of God
2. These two aspects of God’s will are completely consistent; they make one will
3. These two aspects of God’s will, though completely consistent, do not always seem to be so
4. There are two aspects to the one will of God
   When we read in Scripture of the will of God, to what does it refer? To one of two things. On the one hand, there is God’s absolute decree; on the other, there is God’s good pleasure, his desire, that which pleases him.