Accepted in the Beloved. Leslie McKinney Attema

      And what were you chosen for? Read verse 4.

      Imagine God chose you in love to be holy and blameless before him—an awesome privilege, but a grave responsibility.

      The second spiritual blessing is that God adopted you as his daughter through Jesus Christ according to God’s good pleasure. God took great joy in planning beforehand to adopt you into his family and grant you freedom from your sins through the blood of Christ.

      What does it mean that you were adopted by God? Why did you need to be adopted?