Shorter Catechism: Question 20

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. 

Wednesday:

God and Son had an important part in the covenant of grace that God made with His people. He became man and met all the requirements of the covenant so that God's people could receive all the benefits. Long before a single person had been born, even before the world had been created, God chose those people who would be His own special people. He entrusted those people to God the Son who would save them from sin. 

Jesus came to earth to accomplish the will of God for His people. Jesus came to die so that everyone of the people of God could have life (John 6:37-40). If you have trusted in Jesus to save yo from your sin, His life of obedience to God was for you. He earned all the blessings of God's covenant of grace for you, since you could never have done it for yourself. You had earned God's wrath and judgment, and Jesus took that for you when He died on the cross. How thankful you should be to God the Son for coming to earth to keep all the requirements for the covenant for you so that you could enjoy all its blessings!

Ephesians 1:7-12

⁷ In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 

⁸which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight

 ⁹ making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ

¹⁰as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

¹¹In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 

¹²so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.

-Training Hearts, Teaching Minds: Family Devotions Based on the Shorter Catechism