God’s Chosen

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What does it mean to be God’s chosen? If God has chosen his children, who can be against them?

God has chosen and loves his children. If God has chosen us and is for us, then no one can be against us.

God is for us and God has justified us. There is no one who can condemn God’s children.

The Apostle Paul wrote the followers of Jesus in Rome, saying, “Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.” (Romans 8:33-34, ESV).

Jesus sacrificed himself out of love for his children and is interceding for his children whom he has chosen.

May we rest in the confidence of God’s sacrificial love for his chosen ones, knowing he has laid down his life for us and is interceding for us.

A Collect for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 12): “Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour down upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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