God’s Chosen One (Chinese/English)

Ephesians1:4

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
以弗所书1:4就如神在创立世界以前，在基督里拣选了我们，使我们在他面前成为圣洁，无有瑕疵。又因爱我们，

God’s Chosen One
神所拣选的人

As, I start to write about these wonderful truths, I am like the psalmist, these things are too wonderful for me, they maybe too wonderful for me, but if you are truly born again, they are a reality for you as they are for me.
当我开始写下这些奇妙的真理时，我就像诗篇作者一样，这些事情对我来说太奇妙了， 它们可能对我来说太奇妙了，但如果你真的重生了，它们对你来说就像对我一样是现实。

When I was at school, and we played football, we had to pick teams, this was something I dreaded, because I knew  that I would be left to last, ever felt, like that?
当我在学校踢足球的时候，我们必须选择球队，这是我害怕的事情，因为我知道我会被留下来，有没有过这样的感觉？

Well, it’s not the case with God. Amen.
嗯，上帝不是这样。阿门。

He chooses us. Yes, He chose me, and He chose you.
他选择了我们，是的，他选择了我，他也选择了你。

In 1 Corinthians 1:26-31, Paul says GOD chooses the foolish things, the things that the world thinks are useless and unworthy, how amazing。 We might not be anything in the world’s eyes, but we are everything in God’s eyes.
在哥林多前书 1:26-31 中，保罗说上帝拣选了愚拙的，就是世人认为无用和不值得的，这真是太神奇了。在世人眼中，我们可能什么都不是，但在上帝眼中，我们就是一切。

I can’t fully comprehend all this, truly it is beyond my understanding.
我无法完全理解这一切，真的超出了我的理解范围。

God the Father made a conscious choice to choose me and you, if you are truly born again. It shows surely that we have no part in our salvation it is God what take the initiative, it is God who draws us to Himself, it God who loves us.
1 John 4:19
天父上帝有意识地选择了我和你，如果你真的重生了。这肯定表明我们与我们的救赎无关，是上帝主动的，是上帝把我们吸引到他身边，是上帝爱我们。
约翰一书 4:19

Why did He choose us?
他为什么选择我们？

So, we could be holy and blameless before him, we were tainted by sin, but now because of the cross, we can be blameless.
所以，我们可以在他面前圣洁无瑕，我们被罪玷污了，但现在因为十字架，我们可以无可指责了。 ​

What motivated or constrained him? Love, pure and beautiful love. He had no need of us, He knew that we would reject Him, but still He chooses us, still He loved us and now praise God, He has you and me, for His very own. Amen.
是什么激励了他或迫使他？爱，纯洁而美丽的爱。他不需要我们，他知道我们会拒绝他，但他仍然选择我们，仍然爱我们，现在赞美上帝，他拥有你和我，属于他自己……阿门。

Matthew Henry writes on this verse:
马太·亨利 (Matthew Henry) 写道：

We have here the date of this act of love: it was before the foundation of the world;
我们在这里知道了这一爱之举的日期：那是在世界建立之前；

not only before God’s people had a being, but before the world had a beginning;
不仅在上帝的子民存在之前，而且在世界开始之前；

for they were chosen in the counsel of God from all eternity.
因为他们是在上帝的旨意中从永恒中拣选的。

It magnifies these blessings to a high degree that they are the products of eternal counsel.
它高度放大了这些祝福，因为他们是永恒旨意的产物。

The alms which you give to beggars at your doors proceed from a sudden resolve;
你给门口乞丐的施舍是出于突然的决定；

but the provision which a parent makes for his children is the result of many thoughts, and is put into his last  will and testament with a great deal of solemnity.
但父母为孩子提供的供给是经过深思熟虑的结果，并以非常庄严的方式写进了他的大使命和新约中。

God Bless You