05/04/2026
Romans, Thessalonians, Ephesians, John—so many scriptures in the Bible talk about being chosen by God before the foundations of the earth. God is all knowing, all seeing, all powerful. At the beginning and end, He is there. He is outside of all time and space. Yet He chose those whom He knew He could entrust His gift to. It doesn’t mean you won’t mess up. It doesn’t mean some won’t fall away.
But here’s what it does mean….
It means that the God of all creation knows that with Christ within you, you have the ability and capacity to never turn away. You have the ability to take the “bags of gold” He entrusts to you and duplicate it—just like the parable in Matthew 25 says.
If He has chosen you and has given you something He entrusts you with—run with it. There are guardrails. There are boundaries. But faith is the difference between sharing it and advancing it, or hiding it away and not even collecting interest.
You are not working for your salvation—it is free. But faith without works is dead.
In the parables of the bags of gold, the Master gave each servant different amounts of bags of gold according to their ability and capacity. It was free. But He expected them to do something with it before He returned.
The one with five bags and the one with two bags invested and made more. But the servant given one bag was afraid and hid his bag away. When the Master returned He told the servants that did something with what they had been given, that they would be given even more, and He would place them in authority over others. But the one who did nothing, he was called a wicked servant. For even putting it in the bank to collect interest would’ve been better than doing nothing.
The moral of the story—
You are chosen. You’ve been entrusted with a gift. God entrusts you with the gifts He gives you and expects you to use and advance them. You are working out your salvation with fear and trembling, but works won’t save you.
Let this encourage you in everyday life—you have a God who sees you and entrusts you because of Christ within you. This takes the burden off of you—His burden is light. And when He returns, He wants to find you ready.
