“Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in
Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even
as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we
should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us
for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose
of his will” (Ephesians 1:3-5, ESV).
God
chose us in Christ – the believers in Christ – not when we began
to change our life, not during our birth, but “before the
foundation of the world”!
In
other words, if we have faith now in Jesus Christ as our Savior, we
have faith not because we just decide or choose by our own selves. It
is God who chose us even before our birth – yes, before the
creation of the world. Before we have our consciousness, before we
could choose what is desirable or not, God chose or elected us to be
“in Him” – to belong to Him as holy and blameless adopted
children, to have faith in the Son.
On
our own, we were spiritually dead to will or decide or choose to
believe in Him. But, because of His mercy, He elected us long before
that He would enable us to have the faith.
As
God could create something out of nothing, He could also make those
whom He elected to win.
We
chose to have faith in Jesus or we decide to follow and be in Him,
because God had first chosen us to belong to Him and be adopted as
His children. And to have that position is more glorious than to win
in any elective position on this earth!
Praise
the Sovereign Elector who chose us to be in that position -- to be "in Him" and granted us the victory!
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