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“According as He [God the Father] hath chosen us in Him [the Lord Jesus Christ] before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4).
What an amazing fact! It is hard for us to imagine such a thing, that we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. How old is this world? We cannot be sure, for God has not told us, but we know that it was revealed a long time ago. It says in Psalm 102:25, “Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth,” and if God uses the phrase “of old,” surely it must have been a long time ago. But before God even created this world, and the universe, He looked ahead and chose you and me.
Perhaps you and I wonder why the Lord has chosen us, and we cannot really answer that question. God acts according to His own wishes, and if He has chosen us, we should simply be thankful, and praise Him for it. However, it is almost more than our human minds can take in, that before this universe was made, God was thinking about those whom He would choose.
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