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  LIFE OF THE CHOSEN
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: We are called to a personal relationship of love with God,
where we submit our hearts and obey His commands, and experience the
abiding Presence of Christ.

Topics: "Election And Predestination", "Abiding In Christ"
Scripture References: Psalm 37:5, John 15:10-16, Romans 8:38

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Mary Wilder Tileston, through the words of George B. Bubier and Hugh
Black, emphasizes that it is not us who choose Christ, but He who
chooses us, transforming us from servants to friends who will never be
separated from His perfect love. By offering our hearts and obedience to
Christ, we receive His abiding presence, entering into a relationship of
love with Him that inspires us to do His work with joy, peace, and
confidence in His loving guidance. This personal attachment to Jesus
brings eternal life that transfigures our earthly existence with great
joy.

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Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

--JOHN 15:16

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

--JOHN 15:14

0WE have not chosen Thee,

But us Thou deign'st to choose,--

Not servants, but Thy friends to be,

Whom Thou wilt never lose:

For never wilt Thou change

Who art all change above:

Nor life nor death shall us estrange

From Thy most perfect love.

--GEORGE B. BUBIER

WE offer Christ the submission of our hearts, and the obedience of our
lives; and He offers us His abiding Presence. We take Him as our Master,
and He takes us as His friends. Our Lord takes us up into a relationship
of love with Himself, and we go out into life inspired with His spirit
to work His work. It begins with the self-surrender of love; and love,
not fear or favor, becomes the motive. To feel thus the touch of God on
our lives changes the world. Its fruits are joy and peace, and
confidence that the events of life are suffused, not only with meaning,
but with a meaning of love. The soul that is bound by this personal
attachment to Jesus has a life in the eternal, which transfigures the
life in time with a great joy.

--HUGH BLACK

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/life-of-the-chosen/
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