Lasting Value

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?