“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (Ephesians 1:3-4). 

Praise God for His spiritual blessings! God chose us. He made a sovereign choice to save us. For some people, that can be difficult to understand. They ask, “Don’t I have the freedom to choose God? What do you mean God chose me before the foundation of the world?”

But you do have the freedom to choose things, don’t you? God’s given you the freedom to choose what you want to eat, where you want to go, whom you want to marry.

But God also has the capacity to choose. So why not simply rejoice in the fact that God chose you?

And notice, you were chosen “before the foundation of the world” (v. 4). How can God choose people to be saved before those people are even born? Because God is omniscient. He knows all things.

God knew your life in advance. Peter said that we are “elect according to the foreknowledge of God” (1 Peter 1:2).

In fact, Psalm 90:9 says, “We live our lives as a tale that [has been] told” (KJV). He knew the day you would call on Him, and He chose you first.

Jesus told his disciples, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain” (John 15:16). Now, I'm sure that puzzled them, because they had made the decision to follow Him. Because Jesus had chosen them.

So, which is it? Does God choose, or do we choose? The two work together. God chooses you; you choose Him.

And I love this part, “that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (v. 4). Are you without blame right now? Are you perfect? No. But you will be when you’re presented to Him.

In Jude verse 24 we find this: “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.”

When you’re presented to the Father at judgment day, you’ll be presented as faultless because of the work of Christ.

You were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world, and one day you will be presented without blame before Him in love.

That’s the promise from our all-powerful, all-knowing God.