WILL, In love, You are:
Blessed, Chosen, Adopted, Highly Favored, Redeemed and Forgiven!
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: Having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, To the praise of the glory of His grace, where He has made us accepted [highly favored] in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;” (Eph. 1:3-7)
“What? don’t you know that your body is the TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT who is IN YOU, which you have of God, and YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN? For you are *bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, WHICH ARE GOD’S.” (1 Corin. 6:19-20)
“You know that you were not redeemed [bought back] with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But *with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:” (1 Pet. 1:18-19)
“For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are your works; and that my soul knows right well. My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously formed in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes did see my substance, still being unperfect; and IN YOUR BOOK ALL MY MEMBERS WERE WRITTEN, which in continuance were fashioned, when so far there was none of them. “How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.” (Psa. 139:13-18)
-Bill Stockham