I have chosen you! (George Mylne, "Fear Not!" 1854) "Fear not, I have chosen you!" Isaiah 41:9, 10 Christian reader, God says to you, "I have chosen you!" This is a great mystery--but it is a comforting truth. God does not tell you WHY He chose you. He only tells you the simple fact. It is not for you to question it, or to shrink from it--but to receive it, and be thankful. God was free to love you--or free to loathe you. He was free to choose you--or free to reject you. He says, "I have chosen you!" Believe what God says, and rejoice. "Before the mountains were brought forth, before He had formed the earth and the world," God had chosen you! "From everlasting to everlasting, He is God." From everlasting to everlasting He loved--He chose--He delighted in His people. Fellow-sinner, if God says, "I have chosen you," He says it . . . to encourage you; to strengthen you; to sanctify you; that you may rest upon the everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure, that you may look away from self, and see that salvation is altogether of the Lord. God chose you, "not according to your works; but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given you in Christ Jesus before the world began." (2 Timothy 1:9.) Fellow-sinner, you are . . . loved in Christ; chosen in Christ; called in Christ; saved in Christ! Here is your foundation; here your hope; here your safety--you were "chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world!"
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:50:05 +0000
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