25/12/2024
We did not choose Him. He chose us. He chose to pay the price for our sin. He chose to take those stripes upon His body so that we can be healed. He chose the cross knowing what He would endure. He chose all of the pain and suffering because He chose us to be His own.
All He did was by choice. He made the decision to love us. He made the choice to forgive. He made the choice to heal us. He made the choice to pay the price that ransomed us from the bo***ge and captivity of sin and to set us free hoping that we would choose to believe and take up our cross and follow Him. He didn't weigh the cost. He didn't complain, compromise or negotiate. He freely gave His life, the evidence of His love through all He endured and He did it because He chose us.
Many are called to salvation but few are chosen. Many turn away but few take up their cross and follow. The path is narrow and only few find the way because not every person that chose Christ as their Lord and Savior chose to humble themselves and return to obedience. Not all who received the call took up their cross and follow Him. Not all who call themselves by His name keep the law of love that He gave. That's their choice. They do not choose Him but reject Him and deny Him everytime for the sake of their sin. Even though He chose us not many would choose Him.
Many believe that because He chose us we don't have to obey Him. They don't believe they need to repent if they are forgiven. They don't believe that they should live in obedience. They believe in grace just as they believe in Christ but they don't choose grace. They don't choose Christ. They have faith but no works of grace.
You have to choose Christ and keeping choosing Him over every temptation and work of the enemy. You have to keep choosing Him over your own flesh and desires. You have to choose Him and keep choosing Him because He is the truth, the way and the life. He is grace, mercy, forgiveness, kindness, compassion, empathy, self control, long suffering, patience and all that is love.
To choose Christ is to choose is to choose love and to choose love is to choose not to cause another to sin against God.
Love always