Whom Did God Elect?

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In spite of the very many Biblical examples in which people were NOT thinking, saying, believing or understanding what God declared it seems that we can’t get away from this tendency. One would think that after God said that His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts (Isaiah 58:8), that we would be motivated to change our ways of thinking and doing. Apparently not.

In Psalms 2, the writer asks a question that is still pertinent:”Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?” Will there never be an end to our conspiring AGAINST the plan and the people of God? Will we never see and acknowledge whom God has chosen and work collaboratively with those whom He has ordained?

One of the most terrifying examples of error is when Jesus the Christ came unto his own and they did not receive him. John 1:10 declares that He was in the world which was made by Him, yet the world didn’t know Him; could not even comprehend Him. But this is NOT the first example of people going so contrary to the Will of God that they end up killing the one sent by God. The writer of Psalm 2 implies that the people are so rebellious of the anointed king’s leadership that they are conspiring to overthrow him! All throughout history this has been true. Unfortunately it continues today.

Why are we not more sensitive to what God is doing in the earth? Will we always be so dull of understanding? How is it that we fail to recognize obvious signs of God’s approval of individuals?

It would seem to me that we should be just a little more cautious about whom we speak and plot against! Imagine that in the case of the Psalms evidently God had appointed his chosen King and had promised the nations of the earth to him as an inheritance. Wouldn’t  it be best to be on the same team with such a King than to be his enemy?!

When we consider how easy it is to miss what God has made evident, it seems that we would take heed to the Psalmists warning to be instructed and to be wise!

On the other hand when we consider how often people fail to understand the election of God, we should not be so easily moved if people do not recognize any special task for which God may have chosen us. We should trust that eventually our gifts will make room for us and bring us before great men, as has already been declared. Let us be confident that the One who called us will make us shine in the end. “Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.” (Psalm 2:12)

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