"Comfortable with Reformed Theology"

Today I received an encouraging message from Bill Chiu, Professor of Physiology. He agreed to let me share a part of it with other readers. He wrote:

I have been an avid reader of your articles, and thoroughly enjoying them….I am now firmly comfortable with Reformed Theology, and your site has contributed in an important way.

It is indeed a gift of God to be able to perceive the rational perfecton and the moral beauty of the biblical system, and to have it pervade one's thinking.

Why would anyone be unhappy or uncomfortable with the revelation of sovereign grace? It is because, on the one hand, our sinful and unrenewed minds are still holding on to irrational assumptions invented by men; and on the other hand, teachers of the faith who are often bound by the same irrational assumptions tell us that we must hold on to them, and then by these assumptions judge the Bible as "incomprehensible," and after that to believe what the Bible says anyway. According to them, this is faith and reverence. But in reality, it is insanity.

Once God's grace operates on our minds so that we recognize the Bible as the center of our thinking, and in fact as the first principle and starting point for all judgments, then all these irrational assumptions suddenly fall away from us as chains that used to bind our minds from perceiving the truth and its beauty.

Truth is not paradoxial or oppressive — it is simple, direct, beautiful, perfect, and clearly so. To those whose minds God has opened, and whose minds God has sovereignly transformed, truth is "comfortable." Whether we are talking about the doctrine of election, or reprobation, or even hell — the truth that God reveals is perfect and satisfying; it is just right.

I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. (Psalm 119:96-97, KJV)