“HE CHOSE US!”

 Ephesians 1:3-4                    (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.”

I AM CHOSEN!

Those of us who are CHOSEN don’t have an explanation of WHY we are CHOSEN, we just know that we are!!!

When I was recovering from the Brain Hemorrhage in 2007, I was very slow in my responses as my word-recall was damaged during the seventeen day coma.  I had to re-learn to verbally respond to people who were trying to communicate with me.  To this day, I still don’t have the WORDS to adequately express myself when describing my condition during “the recovery”!  

The same can be said about my SPIRITUAL condition.  On January 08, 1978 I went to church like I previously had done most of my life.  On that evening I had made a “profession of faith”, like I had done a few times before, but those words never regenerated my heart.  That evening I was “searching” for a meaning for life in general.  I “begged” JESUS to take away the pain and discontent that was enveloping me and replace it with HIS PEACE.  HE DID precisely that, but not because I was worthy, but because I AM CHOSEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD!!!  

In John 15:16 JESUS PLAINLY says “You did not choose ME, but I CHOSE YOU and appointed you that you should GO AND BEAR FRUIT and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the FATHER in MY name, HE may give it to you.”  The closest explanation in Scripture I know of is written above, SPOKEN by the CREATOR HIMSELF!  

Not only am I CHOSEN, but the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES CHOSE me before the foundation of the world to GO AND BEAR FRUIT!  I am so BLESSED that “HE CHOSE US” to be just a small part of HIS MAJESTIC PLAN!!!