1 Corinthians 1:26
"Why, Lord, why?" That was the question the lady on the phone asked. She had just received news that her sister-in-law and two children had died. A train/car accident took their lives at an unmarked crossing.
The ever-recurring question is, "Why?" Just ask any patient. But other people ask it too. A Christian might ask, "Why me, Lord?" When considering the Lord's call to follow him in humble faith.
In the daily course of life, people are chosen for special favors because of who they are or what they have made of themselves or whom they know. One wouldn't expect to see the president of the United States standing at the end of a long line at the bank or supermarket. Authority, power and birth mean something before men
Human reason might presume that God calls people to be members of his family of believer for the same reasons. But Paul reminded the Corinthian Christian that God's way of doing things is not compatible to man's. Few among them could lay claim to great wisdom, superior position of authority or favored birth in noble families. Yet they were members of the family of believers.
Everything depends on God's grace. "It is by grace you have been Saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works do that no one can boast" (Ephesians2:8,9).
God's undeserved love presented Jesus as Savior to a world lost in sin. God's undeserved love brought us from the dead on that third day. God's undeserved love called us through His word to be members of His family through faith in Jesus Christ.
God's undeserved live moves Him daily to keep us physically and spiritually as His children. And finally God's undeserved love for us will cause Him to take our hand and walk with us through the doorway of death into the glory of our eternal home. Truly, by the grace of God alone, I am what I am his child, an heir of His eternal heaven.
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