Not Reluctant: Making Us Blameless

“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.” (Ephesians 1:4)

We’re rediscovering this week that God is not a reluctant Father. He is a joyful dad who made a plan to include us in his family because he wanted to. Because it made him happy.

leaf_350_bAnd to make it possible for him to be with us, he even made a plan for the barrier between us to be torn down. He is God, after all. He can’t, he won’t live with the stench of sin and death, even our sin.

So long before he assembled us in the womb, he gave us the gift of making a way for us to be “holy and blameless.” He would sacrifice his sinless birth Son as the payment for the sins of all his to-be-adopted children.

Bottom line: He always wanted you for his child, and he did what it took to make it happen through Jesus.

Think: How does the idea that God was planning for your future before time began make you feel about your place in the universe? Does it change how you think of yourself? How you think of Him?

Pray: As a Christian, thank God that he chose you in Christ before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

Do: Look up definitions for “holy” and “blameless.”