God Chose You Be thankful for it

God chose you: be thankful for it

Most of the time we pray for Joe's toe, Jack's back and Jane's pains and do not pray for the big or eternal things God told us to pray for.

We can easily do the same things about giving thanks. We thank the Lord for our food and material things and do not thank Him for some of the big or eternal things.

God chose you
"Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him In love " Eph. 1:4. Now that is awesome. Don't get side tracked and debate election or predestination or the sovereignty of God just thank God the Father that He chose you out of the six and one half billion people in this world. Isn't that staggering? Thank God He chose you!

He drew you
"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him" John 6:44. WOW, not only did the Father choose you but He drew you. "THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS,THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD " Rom. 3:11. God takes the initiative. No one goes around seeking God until God begins to draw him. When does He begin to draw you? On a Tuesday morning, at 4 a. m. Gene Gaskins asked me to go to church with him the next Sunday. By the time Sunday came I was so eager to go to church I could hardly wait. God was drawing me.

In sixty years of ministry
During these years of ministry, I have seen, God begins to draw people when we begin to witness to them and/or bring them to church. We are to get the gospel to people, Mk 16:15, and we are to get people to the gospel, Luke 14:23. That is how we change the world!

You could be without God
You could have been born some place where they have never heard the gospel. But for the grace of God you could be a drunkard or a drug addict. You could be lost, without God and without hope in this present evil world. Give thanks if your are saved.

Think about it
Meditate on it, dwell on it until it becomes overwhelming and give thanks to the Father, that He did choose you and drew you. This is big! Doesn't that make sense?

Prayer:  Father, we are thankful You did choose us and drew us until we heard Christ died for our sins paid our debt and rose again and we received Him and were born again. Help, those reading this to be thankful for this wonderful truth, in Jesus name.