BEFORE TIME BEGAN...

...GOD HAD A PLAN!!

(I shared this in the Jesus Discovery group. We've just started into John's gospel. If you'd like to join us just ask for an invite.)

He knew that His prize creation, we humans, would sin. He knew that we would mess up His wonderful creation. He knew that we would turn our back on Him. Yet, He still chose to create us.

(I've just done a little search and found this...)

Before God created anything...

* He loved the Son
John 17:24 - "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world."

* He chose the Son to be our ransom
1 Pet 1:20-21 - "God chose him as your ransom long before the world began, but he has now revealed him to you in these last days."

* He knew US!!
Psalm 139:15-16 - "My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
"All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

* He chose US!!!
Eph 1:4-5 - "For He chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will."

* He had a job for us!
Eph 2:10 - "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

How totally awesome is that??