God Calls you the Chosen Ones.Concept: Selected, elected, preferred, considered special by God.
Ps 105:6 O you offspring of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His chosen ones, AMP
Ps 105:43, And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen ones with gladness and singing, AMP
Ps 106:5, That I may see and share the welfare of Your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your heritage. AMP
Isa 65:22, They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat [the fruit]. For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, and My chosen and elect shall long make use of and enjoy the work of their hands. AMP
The idea of selection and election by God has been which has filled books and theological discussion for hundreds of years. One group proclaiming the Sovereignty of God and the other the Free will of mankind. The two sides represented by John Calvin (God’s Sovereignty) and Jacobus Arminius (Man’s Free Will). Scripture however brings clarity to the issue in Romans 8:28-30. In this passage we see that the good in 28 is becoming like the son in 29. We also see that our election or for-ordination is based on God‘s for-knowledge or awareness before hand of our choice to serve Him.
Rom 8:28-30 We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.
29 For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
30 And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being]. AMP
Today, meditate on the fact that God chose you, that you are one of the elect of God. How marvelous and wonderful it is that God who knows the end from the beginning knows you as one that He has chosen.
Artwork: Home at Last by Danny Hahlbohm
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