Friend, God chose you because He loves you. Through the sacrifice of Jesus, you can be forgiven and counted blameless and born again. Alive in Christ, a new creation, justified, and free. You are being healed and given the strength to conquer your old sinful nature, and being renewed into the image of Jesus. A wonderfully made, adopted child and joint heir with Christ, sanctified for a special purpose, being appointed as ambassadors and priests, to represent our Heavenly Father.
Friend: “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.” (Joh 15:15 WEB)
Chosen: “We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,” (1Th 1:4 WEB) Loved: “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.” (1Jn 4:10 WEB)
Loved: “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.” (1Jn 4:10 WEB)
Forgiven: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1Jn 1:9 WEB)
Blameless: “yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,” (Col 1:22 WEB)
Alive: “But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),” (Eph 2:4-5 WEB)
New Creation: “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.” (2Co 5:17 WEB)
Justified: “being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;” (Rom 3:24 WEB)
Free: “If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” (Joh 8:36 WEB)
Healed: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.” (1Pe 2:24 WEB)
Strong: “I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.” (Php 4:13 WEB)
Conquerors: “No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” (Rom 8:37 WEB)
Renewed: “and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,” (Eph 4:23 WEB)
Wonderfully Made: “I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.” (Psa 139:14 WEB)
Adopted: “having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,” (Eph 1:5 WEB)
Heirs: “and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.” (Rom 8:17 WEB
Sanctified: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.” (Jer 1:5 WEB)
Appointed: “You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.” (Joh 15:16 WEB)
Ambassadors: “We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.” (2Co 5:20 WEB)
Priesthood: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:” (1Pe 2:9 WEB)
