The Choosing of God by R.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 21, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 28.

The Choosing of God

By R.

WHEN God chose Joseph, the rejected of his brothers and a prisoner of the Egyptians, and made him a ruler in Egypt and a saviour of life; when He selected Moses, the one who had been refused by his own people and who was a fugitive from his adopted country, and made him the leader and deliverer of the Israelites; when He took David from the sheepfold, unknown to the nation and overlooked by his father and brothers, and made him king over Israel; in each one of these cases and in others it was being made manifest that God sees deeper than man and chooses those whom the world rejects in order to bring life and salvation to all those who follow His providence. “Things which are despised, hath God chosen.” This awful difference of view on the part of God and man culminated in the terrible crisis of the cross. Christ was despised and rejected of men, yet He became in spite of it the Redeemer and the Saviour of men. Men may still despise and reject Him, and may call the preaching of the Cross foolishness, but to those that believe He is the mighty power of God even unto an eternal salvation.