40 Days ~ twenty seven & twenty eight

I am...

A branch chosen to bear fruit.

You didn't choose me.  I chose you.

I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit,

so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for,

using my name.

John 15:16

 

I am...

Predestined to look like Jesus and see him in his glory.

For God knew his people in advance,

and he chose them to become like his Son,

so that his Son would be the firstborn among

many brothers and sisters.

Romans 8:29

See how very much our Father loves us,

for he calls us his children, and that is what we are!

But the people who belong to this world don't recognize

that we are God's children because they don't know him.

Dear friends we are already God's children,

but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears.

But we do know that we will be like him,

for we will see him as he really is.

And all who have this eager expectation will keep

themselves pure, just as he is pure.

Everyone who sins is breaking God's law,

for all sin is contrary to the law of God.

And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins,

and there is no sin in him.

1 John 3:1-5