Covenant Father

Morbid introspection can work with virtually any doctrinal material. In a traditional Reformed pietistic setting, it tries to pry into the decrees of election to find out the names of the chosen. In the view that a person in conversion does not undergo a change of nature, the guessing would have to involve the inscrutable whims of the Spirit. What kind of wrestling will God do with me? How long will He be willing to keep it up? But the basic question should always be, “Who is my Father?” The only faithful covenantal answer is “God.”