…According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love… – Ephesians 1:4

 We are to praise God because all spiritual blessings have come to us in the same way as our election came, “according as He hath chosen us in Him.” How did that come? Well, it came of His free, sovereign grace. He loved us because He would love us. “Ye have not chosen Me; but I have chosen you.” If there is any virtue, if there be any praise in us now, He put it there. To the bottomless abyss of His own infinite goodness we must trace the election of His grace. Well, now, every blessing comes to us in the same way. God hath not blessed thee, my brother, with usefulness because thou didst deserve it, but because of His grace. He did not redeem thee, or regenerate thee, or sanctify thee, or uphold thee, because of anything in thee. Again and again, by the prophet Ezekiel, did the Lord remind His ancient people that the blessings He bestowed upon them were all gifts of His grace. “Therefore, say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for Mine holy name’s sake.” And again, “Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.” Every blessing comes to us with the hall-mark of sovereign grace upon it. As the Lord distributed the gifts of His grace, He says, “May I not do as I will with My own?” He does so, and we bless, and praise, and adore the sovereign grace of God, which having chosen us, continues to bless us according as He hath chosen us in Christ. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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