This set of verses is very meaningful for me. First Paul tells us that God has always had a plan for us...."just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world..." We have been chosen to be His adopted children before the foundation of the world, we have been in the plans of God before He even made the world- how blessed and chosen does that make you feel!?
He destined us for adoption- to be fully accepted as His children, through Christ. That is awe inspiring and humbling. God destined us to be in His family, in love and through the riches of His grace.
I just wanted to share these verses because I want all of you to stop for a moment and consider that even on the days you feel ho-hum or like you are nobody special that God considers you of infinite value. Before He made the world He had selected you as His child, and then made the provision through Christ's blood that you can be blameless before Him and secured forever in grace. If God has held you in His heart since before our world's birth then you are amazing, and loved and wanted by the Most High. Never let anyone tell you that you're not important, valued and loved....because God treasures you!
Ephesians 1:1-10
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus and are faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus 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 just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. 5 He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight 9 he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
He destined us for adoption- to be fully accepted as His children, through Christ. That is awe inspiring and humbling. God destined us to be in His family, in love and through the riches of His grace.
I just wanted to share these verses because I want all of you to stop for a moment and consider that even on the days you feel ho-hum or like you are nobody special that God considers you of infinite value. Before He made the world He had selected you as His child, and then made the provision through Christ's blood that you can be blameless before Him and secured forever in grace. If God has held you in His heart since before our world's birth then you are amazing, and loved and wanted by the Most High. Never let anyone tell you that you're not important, valued and loved....because God treasures you!
Ephesians 1:1-10
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus and are faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus 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 just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. 5 He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight 9 he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
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