Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to die in sin and misery?
A. 20. From all eternity and merely because it pleased Him, God chose some to have everlasting life. These He freed from sin and misery by a covenant of grace and brought them to salvation by a redeemer.
Tuesday:
God has made a covenant of grace with His people. A covenant is an agreement that promises good things if certain conditions are met. Grace is goodness and blessing that people do not earn or deserve in any way. So when God made a covenant of grace with His people, He agreed to give them many wonderful gifts and blessings that they never deserved. In this covenant, as in all covenants, there were conditions that had to be met if God's people were to receive the blessings. God promised that He Himself would meet those conditions.
Do you remember the answer to the question: How many persons are in the one God? (Answer: "Three persons are in the one God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These three are one God, the same in substance and equal in power and glory.") All three persons had a part in making and keeping this covenant. God the Father chose certain human beings to be His children.
Although these human beings, like all human beings, deserved God's anger, God chose to love them. Although they deserved death for their sins, He chose to make a way to give them life that would last forever. God the Father did not have to chose anyone. He chose to give His love and everlasting life to some people just because He is a God of grace, a God who gives people wonderful things that they do not deserve. If you have believed in Jesus as the Savior God provides, how thankful you should be to God the Father for choosing you to be His child.
Ephesians 1:3-6
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
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