51 - God-Given People

God knows all things, and even before He made the world He knew every person who would come to Him. He knew who would respond when He called us, and He knew we would sin and be damaged, but because He’s God, He knew He could rescue us, heal us and train us until we would fulfill our destiny. There was a very specific reason that God decided to create us: He wanted a huge family of sons and daughters, and He wanted them to become just like His divine Son Jesus.

When we repent and believe in Jesus Christ each of us steps into a divinely-ordained process that begins to change us immediately, and will continue to change us until the day we die. As our Heavenly Father, God guides everything that happens to us so that it will move us toward His goal…which is to make us more and more like Jesus. We still have a will, so we can slow this process down, and since He doesn’t make us His slaves, it’s even possible to leave Him. But as long as we’re His, He keeps moving us toward our destiny. He’s unrelenting. The plan never changes. The outcome was set before the worlds were made. And to help us reach this goal God has given us gifts through His Son. These gifts are people.