Election?

It is very difficult to take verses like these and not realize God has a plan in salvation......God has foreknowledge....God has preordained.....God is God....if it weren’t for His predeterminate counsel, would anyone be saved? I hardly think so ....The Bible says there is none righteous, no not one....none that doeth good....do we think we are the 1 that defies that truth??
 it also does much harm to the Christian community when we think we choose Christ....because that little play on words indirectly exalts ones self or their choices [instead of the only One worthy of exaltation and that is the Lord Jesus Christ].....As born again believers though, we don’t live our lives in some sense of false pride that we were “chosen” but we live our lives in humility knowing we are safe and secure in Christ, and we live our lives praying for those who don’t know the Saviour that we love......We labor till our Master comes.....this is the essence of the Christian life

Hope you all have a Blessed Monday!! 
Pastor Scott