You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit – fruit that will last – and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. (John 15:16)
God has appointed us. He has given us a direction and a purpose. We can choose to go off that course and do things our own way; He has given us the free will to do so. We can try to take control of our lives but doing this has a price. If we take the wheel from God’s hands we risk losing everything that God has planned for us; and not only that, but no matter what we manage to glean on our own it will be of no lasting value. What does a little black book full to bursting; a fat bank account, and/or a position of earthly power bring you in God’s Kingdom? Nothing. A man who lived in God’s will and dies without so much as a dollar to His name will have treasures in heaven waiting for him and a legacy of eternal value behind him.
How does it make you feel to know you have been chosen by God?
Knowing that God chose us for a lasting purpose; why do you believe people choose to walk their own path instead of God’s?
How does it make you feel to know you have been chosen by God?
Knowing that God chose us for a lasting purpose; why do you believe people choose to walk their own path instead of God’s?