TUESDAY April 16, 2024
A Story Already Told
...having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Ephesians 1:5-6
Paul continued to write a list of many other blessings we have as believers in Christ. We are predestined, which means “to live in advance or to predetermine.” God already knew your whole life story––beginning, middle and end. God is from everlasting to everlasting. In the light of eternity, your life is a story already told.
God knows the past, the present and the future. He beholds the future and sees the exact moment when the world will end! The world is like a clock winding down to the final second. God already knows those on earth who will accept His Son as the way of salvation, and those who will reject Him. It is already written! Even though we live our lives in the present, God has allowed us to see into the future through the Scriptures. He has given us this privilege so we can be obedient and faithful to His calling upon our lives.
As believers, we all go through many trials and temptations, defeats and victories, but remember one thing: If God has predestined us, then He has also adopted us as His sons and daughters. He will never leave us or forsake us, as we are His children.
Although adoption has no place in Jewish law, it has a place in the Roman culture. Adoption is the legal transfer of a child from one family to another. Imagine, we are adopted by God! As a child of God, we are no longer in the darkness, but have become a son or daughter in the kingdom of light. We are accepted––highly favored––in Christ. We are so privileged to have God’s gracefulness upon our lives.
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
~Colossians 1:13-14~
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