1 Peter 1:3-5 A doctrine some struggle with is that of election. Perhaps it pokes at our idea of fairness, even free will. First of all, it is outside of fairness, in that God is not under obligation to any us of based in our inherited rejection of him. Second we really don't have free will since that was lost in the garden. Only Adam and Eve had true free will: they new perfection and had the opportunity to experiment with evil. They found it to be just as God promised.
In our passage today we see that election is strictly the result of God's mercy. It changes our position from a place of no hope to that of having a living hope, from a position where we were destined to perish, to one that promises an eternal inheritance, guarded not by any redeeming quality of our own, but by God himself. Another reason to be thankful is God's mercy!
Have a great day!
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