In the opening pages of my children's bible there is an illustration of God's hands holding a blueprint. A plan of creation. And that is exactly what the Bible tells us God did. He made a plan.
They were all there, Father, Son, and Spirit, the day those words were spoken, 'Let there be Light', and so the story began.
And do you know what was planned even before that day?
God's children.
'For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ in accordance with his pleasure and his will'*
He knew us before that day. He loved us before that day. He knew we would reject him, would run away and need rescuing. He knew how he would rescue us. He knew who would rescue us.
And now to "chapter 52":
'He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God- children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.'*
Ephesians 1:4-5, John 1:11-12
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