Romans 8:29 AMPC For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
If you're a believer in Jesus and are frustrated at your failures, be encouraged - you're destined to become like Jesus in nature!
Imagine that - to love perfectly - to know God so intimately, that you are one with him!
Well, that's your future and God sees it, foreknows it, now!
The foreknowledge of God is amazing.
We think of things in terms of time, but He created time, He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end - He is outside of time - He holds time in His hands:
Revelation 1:8 AMPC I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord God, He Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty (the Ruler of all).
That's how come He knows what's going to happen as if it had already taken place. Nothing surprises Him.
Jesus foreknew who was going to betray Him: Jon 13:17-18
He foreknew how He was going to die. He foreknew His resurrection: He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. Mark 8:31
He foreknew Peter's denial: “Truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” Matthew 26:34
He foreknew the destruction of the Temple Matthew 24:1-3
He foreknew what you and what you are going through right now!
Ephesians 1:4
He foreknows His Return and the end of time: Matthew 24:27 AMPC For just as the lightning flashes from the east and shines and is seen as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
In these uncertain times it is so good to know that mine are in God's hands:
Psalm 31:15 AMPC My times are in Your hands; deliver me from the hands of my foes and those who pursue me and persecute me.
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