Ephesians 1:4-5 Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
Yesterday we looked at how much we matter to God and our verses today reinforce that. Long before you and I were thought of God loved us and chose us in Christ. He had made a decision before the world was made to adopt us into His family. What an honour and privilege! It’s mind boggling, isn’t it?
Along side that is the fact that we were made to last. That’s quite a thought! So much in today’s culture is not made to last but only has a limited life span. Appliances don’t seem to last as long as they used to and clothes wear out quicker because they know people want to buy the next thing all the time.
But we are different! God designed us to last forever, through this present life and on into eternity to be with Him, a part of His family. How glorious is that! This life is not all there is and if we’ve asked Jesus to be our Lord and Saviour then He said He has prepared a place for us and we all know anything God makes is going to be good!😊
Our verses tell us God really wanted to do it. How wonderful to be so wanted! On those days when we’ve been tempted to think we’re not wanted for some reason, or we’ve been rejected, we can read these verses and know God wanted us so much He sent Jesus to come and make it possible for Him to adopt us, to be His very own, for always. It says it gave God great pleasure to do it. Isn’t that so lovely. I hope you’re getting it.😊
God loved you, chose you, wanted you and He’s really pleased you belong to Him forever. Thank You Lord so much.
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