John 15:16-17 (ESV) 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
I love this, doesn’t matter if I chose Jesus. He chose me first. All those years of drug abuse when my back was turned against him.
He still chose me. Now I choose to bear fruit, good fruit.
That day you will know that I am in my father and you are in me and I am in you.
John 15.16 I did not begin in you; you began in me! I am not your idea; you are mine! I have strategically positioned you in order that you may abound in much fruit bearing, wherever life leads you – fruit that would ceaselessly continue this same incarnate life of union with me! From within this place, anything you desire has already been granted you by my Father. The word, 1eklegomai, traditionally associated with the idea of election, has two components, ek, a preposition that indicates source or origin and lego, meaning to communicate ideas; thus, the original blueprint-word, the logos; see John 1:1-3 and 12. The word becomes flesh in the fruit you eat! The many are called, [kaleo] but few are “chosen” eklegomai thus, The masses are defined by my name but few realize their origin in me!)
Matthew 6.6 