Do We Choose God or Does He Choose Us? Part 2 (TMF:1781)

Monday, February 07, 2022
Peace to Live By: Do We Choose God or Does He Choose Us? Part 2 (TMF:1781) - Daniel Litton
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       Let us hit the rewind button back to Romans chapter 5, and re-read verse 1. It says, “since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” When Paul says that God justifies us, remember, he counts our justification by the faith that we have placed in him. We choose to believe in God, we placed our faith in God, and then he justified us and gave us peace with him. Again, though, in reality we did not choose God, he choose us. By his Spirit he has drawn us to himself so that we have placed our faith in him. One way to look at it is that we have to receive a word from God in order to believe in him, right? That’s how God draws us to himself. That’s what people do who bring the message of God’s salvation--they bring a word. In other words, then (no pun intended), God had to bring a word to us so that we would trust in him.