Sunday, July 17

God’s plan from the beginning

Making us like Jesus was God’s plan from the beginning. God ‘predestined’ or planned for us to be like his Son (Romans 8:29). Before God even made the world, his plan for you and me was to make us like Jesus. And everything that happens to us is part of that plan.

— Tim Chester
You Can Change
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2011), 15