Paul is excited and full of praise because God brings wonderful spiritual blessings into His people’s lives. But how does this happen?

This begins not in this world but before the world began with God choosing particular people to be saved and blessed (v4). We’re coming here to the often-controversial subject of predestination. The key to approaching this subject is with child-like faith accepting there will be mystery. We also need to approach this subject with an open mind, a mind open to what God says about this in His Word.

Blessing begins with God choosing people and choosing them to become a holy and blameless people (v4). Christian are chosen to be different from the people of the world around us. Is this true of you?

In love God predestined (pre-designs) for people to be brought into His family through Jesus. Predestination is not about the harsh actions of a hard God, predestination is about the tender and gracious actions of an amazingly loving God. This is done for us to praise the greatness of God’s grace delivered through the high price of Jesus’ death (v6-7).