“HE CHOSE US IN HIM!”

 Ephesians 1:3-6                               (ESV)

Spiritual Blessings in CHRIST

[3] 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, [4] even as “HE CHOSE US IN HIM” BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, that we should be Holy and blameless before HIM. In love [5] HE predestined us for adoption to HIMSELF as sons through JESUS CHRIST, according to the purpose of HIS will, [6] to the praise of HIS GLORIOUS GRACE, with which HE has blessed us in the Beloved.

We are CHOSEN IN HIM to GLORIFY HIS NAME, even though HE knew that I was the “least of these” beforehand!  But “HE CHOSE US IN HIM” cannot be fully understood unless we understand that we, the CHOSEN, have to be IN HIM to be apart of the CHOSEN!  

JESUS CHRIST didn’t select “the cream of the crop” when “HE CHOSE US IN HIM” BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD when HE selected me!  I was born to a mom who was a high-school dropout who was divorced by a father who survived polio as a child and was still trying to prove himself worthy when he had a stroke in 1990 and was incapacitated until dying in 1993.   Yet JESUS CHOSE me from the “least of these” to live inside of to illustrate HIS AMAZING GRACE to a lost and dying world!

This passage of Scripture has been written about many times, and it is because I am so humbled to understand that PERFECTION CHOSE the greatest imperfection to be cleansed from my unrighteousness (1 John 1:9) to GLORIFY HIS NAME!  Am I worthy of HIS selection?  NO!  But “HE CHOSE US IN HIM” anyway, and I am SO glad HE did!!!