BE AS CHOSEN TO BE, WHAT TO BE AND HOW TO BE? I. According to Hamlet in Shakespeare. "To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover’d country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.–Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember’d." NOTE: From http://www.nosweatshakespeare. com/quotes/hamlet-to-be-or-not-to-be/ . II. Which is Much like the Being and Becoming of the World, the Philosophers of the world, the secular counselors of personality and growth, and so on and on to those committed to the wisdom of the world as in contrast to the wisdom of God already given in the Bible. III. Or Be as You were chosen to be by God from before the foundation of the world. Give thanks and gratitude to God your Creator for what you were created to be, meant to be and chosen to be! "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love..." (Ephesians 1:3,4) 1. Does it not make you feel good to know from the Bible that God chose you personally and individual even before He created the heavens and the earth? 2. As a Christian, really a believer IN CHRIST, from "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" you were chosen at that point in time before time and earth started to be blessed with all those IN CHRIST with "all spiritual blessings in heavenly places". IV. What were you chosen to be? Bible answer, to "be holy and without blame before him in love...". NOTE: Seems imposible as we know our limitations and offences against God--the closer we get to God through Christ the more we realize our sins and shortcomings, so how in the world can we be holy and blameless before God in love. V. How To Be Holy and Blameless before the Great God Who wants to bless us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places! HOW? It is with big words that need to be explained, but the answer of HOW begins with Ephesians 1:5,6 below. "Having predestinated us unto the adoption as children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." (Ephesians 1:5,6) 1. God adopted us to Himself by the way of what Jesus Christ did. 2. God did this by the good pleasure of His will and by His glorious grace. 3. God thus made us accepted, holy and blameless, through the Beloved Christ NOTE: Download a free PDF copy of BeWhatChosenToBe.pdf . |
What you were created to be, meant to be, and chosen to be! "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love" (Ephesians 1:3,4) |