“I #choose you” is a phrase we all like to #hear! Remember grade school when you were the first or last one chosen on a team? We all make #choices that affect us every day. Even choices that others make by not including us in their plans bring about change. Acts 15:7-11 “Peter said,…you know how a good while ago GOD MADE a CHOICE among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. God who knows the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as HE did unto us; putting no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith….We believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved…even as they.” GOD CHOOSES YOU —- NOW YOU CHOOSE
#GLORY, #splendor, and #honor are attributes which are rare. I am in awe when I see a magnificent sunset or the evening sky filled with twinkling stars so I can only imagine the splendor and glory all around Jesus Christ on the night of His earthly birth. Luke 2 records how shaken the shepherds in the fields watching their sheep were when the “angel of the Lord stood before them and the GLORY OF THE LORD SHONE AROUND THEM..the angel said, ‘Do not be afraid, I bring you good news of great joy for all people; today in the city of David there has been born for YOU a SAVIOR, who is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.’ Suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of heavenly host praising God and saying, ‘GLORY TO GOD in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.” We see big productions on large screens or at Disney World or in church programs, but from what source does REAL GLORY come? Jesus lifting His eyes to heaven said in John 17, “I GLORIFIED THEE (FATHER) on earth having accomplished the work which Thou gave Me to do and now, GLORIFY ME together with THYSELF, FATHER, with the GLORYwhich I had with Thee before the world was. . . Father, I desire that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am, in order that they may behold MY GLORY, which THOU GAVE ME; for Thou loved Me before the foundation of the world.” May We Behold HIS GLORY….
“In the #BEGINNING WAS THE #WORD, and the Word was with #God, and the WORD WAS GOD…All things were made by Him…In Him was life…The WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us (we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father) full of GRACE and TRUTH….. He was in the world and world was made by Him, and the world would not recognize Him. He came unto His own, and His own did not received Him, but as many as receive Him to them He gives power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name” John 1:1-14 My words are inadequate, but God’s WORD is INVINCIBLE.
