God, as God, chose how He would be toward us. He is God. He could have treated us however He wanted.God chose how we were created, how long the earth will sustain itself. God could have forced His will upon any of us. He is GOD.
Ours is not the first rebellion. We aren’t the first of His creation to think we can choose how to treat God, even choose to override His right to rule. No, some of the angels were first. Their history is that God cast them out of heaven. satan was not always the way he is. He began as an angel of worship. The result of his rebellion is separation from God.
But when it came to humans, we who God created and said about us, “It is very good”, we who God breathed into and we became a living soul, God has not cast us away. Again, God could have chosen how to treat us. He is God.
Instead, He entered into a covenant with us to keep us as His. He created faith and put in us, as well as the ability to understand Who He is ..and to those of us who have believed on Him, to us …He gave the power to become the sons of Himself.
He wrapped Himself in flesh. Came and was humiliated, suffered torment …and reconciled His holiness to our unrighteousness, by destroying, crushing …Jesus.
God gets to choose. And He chose to love us, to accept us, even in our rebellion. God is not a man that He should lie …was God’s choice to decide. God is not the son of man that He should change His mind is also a God decision.
We get our hearts hurt, our feelings hurt, over the way we are treated by others, yet somehow think we can treat God however we want. We hold unforgiveness, give ourselves to bitterness, and ignore God because we are unhappy. Yet God still chooses to not cast us away.
God gets to choose. May we never forget that. He chose us. And He has chosen to be only good to us. Can you imagine if God ever chose to behave toward us the way we behave toward Him?
God’s journal, His Word, has been written to give us all the information we would ever need to know about Him. He inspired the Holy Spirit to move on men to tell us of His faithfulness, even the “realness” of God, where we read that He repented that He ever made us. But still, He keeps us. His promises are written, His heart toward us is told. His love for us is from everlasting to everlasting. Why? Because that is what He chose.
That we have life, every day, is due to God’s choice. May we always remember to thank Him for His covenant choice to love us, to give us the right to be His sons, to rule and reign in this life, victorious over the enemy that HE destroyed, at great cost to Himself. God chooses us. May we choose to live lives that show Him honor.
For His Glory 