Was A.W. Tozer wrong on sovereignty?

Today's question arrives from a listener named Josh, Peshachan, hello, I'm a Christian

of only a few years and I'm learning more about Calvinism and election in my studies.

My question is to what degree are our actions in daily walk with God predestined?

If I recall correctly, A.W. Tozer believed Providence was like a cruise ship.

The ship's final destination is settled in certain, that's Providence.

But on the open water, what we each do on the ship is open to our own free volition.

So Peshachan, how much of our daily life is sovereignly directed by God?

Well, I love A.W. Tozer, but that's a bad analogy.

You had this, it really is.

Sorry A.W. The last question, how much of our daily life is sovereignly directed by God?

My answer is all of it down to the tying of your shoelaces and the brushing of your teeth,

which I'll try to show from the Bible in just a minute.

There are several problems with this proposal that says life is like a cruise ship whose

destination is sovereignly decreed while the life on the ship is not sovereignly decreed.

And here's the first problem.

It implies that the choices we make in life on the ship don't have any decisive effect

on the outcome of our lives, the destination of the ship.

That's not true.

Hebrews 12.14 says, strive on the ship for the holiness without which no one will see

the Lord.

That is, arrive at the destination, no holiness on the ship, no destination in heaven.

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