destined

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, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will, so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.  (Ephesians 1:3-14, NRSV)

According to the good pleasure of His will we have been destined to be children of God.

Adoption is not always something that people want. Sometimes it is a long hard road they go before they get there and in order to get there they had to lose something near and dear to them.

And all of that is true for us to as children of God.

You see it is His good pleasure to adopt us, to make us His own, but do we want to be?

You see when we become God’s we have to give up control of our lives, over what we do and how we do it.

It is the fight between a parent and a child when the child wants one thing but the parent knows that is not the best thing for the child. So the battle ensues…

But the promise of God is our being a part of the inheritance, of His kingdom. He has chosen us, and has done it before the setting of the world in motion, to be adopted by Him. irregardless of your thought s on the matter.

So He has adopted you, and made you His own.

Will you fight it?

Will you battle to have control?

Will you forfeit the inheritance?

What will you do, because God loves you and has chosen you?