Incarnation – Day 342

₃Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world. ₄Even before the world was made, God had already chosen us to be his through our union with Christ, so that we would be holy and without fault before him.

Because of his love ₅God had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us his sons and daughters — this was his pleasure and purpose.