God loved us first…

 God loved us first…

When I was younger, awaiting the arrival of my children…I loved them before I even knew them…I prepared for each one, gathering clothing, equipment, diapers, even some extra rest when I could…the ones I bore, I felt them move within me, a flutter here and there, to hiccups and painful kicking….the ones we adopted, I read their stories, waited until we finally got the go ahead to pick them up…I loved each one in preparation to love them more through time…I still do, plus now I get to love the grandchildren and great grandchildren before they are born as well…

Honestly, there were some bad times, trying times, angry times, rebellious times, but I still loved them through it all…

 

God knew what he was creating  when he created man after his own image…he could look down through time and see the rebellion, the rejection, the hard and good times…he knew yet he still created us…he still loved us first! He chose a people, and made a nation of them…

He knew he would send His son as a much needed savior…he knew he would not only have a chosen nation, but would include the gentiles into this love. Until he desired that none should perish…he knew he would send missionaries to the ends of the earth to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus and his salvation….

He loved us first…

Thank YOU…

 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Deut.7.6-9

 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deut.14.2

 O offspring of Israel his servant,children of Jacob, his chosen ones!

1Chr.16.13

 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,on those who hope in his steadfast love, that he may deliver their soul from deathand keep them alive in Ps.33.12,Ps.33.18,Ps.33.19

 But you, Israel, my servant,Jacob, whom I have chosen,the offspring of Abraham, my friend; you whom I took from the ends of the earth,and called from its farthest corners,saying to you, “You are my servant,I have chosen you and not cast you off”; Behold my servant, whom I uphold,my chosen, in whom my soul delights;I have put my Spirit upon him;he will bring forth justice to the nations.

Isa.41.8,Isa.41.9,Isa.42.1

 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

Rom.11.5

 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Col.3.12-7

 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 

Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

1Pet.2.9-10

 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1John.4.10

 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matt.28.19,Matt.28.20

 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts.1.7,Acts.1.8

God is with us …

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