40 Days of Prayer, His Chosen People JOHN 15:16, Week 3, Day 1

HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE JOHN 15:16
Frodo: “I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.”
Gandalf: “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what
to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides that of evil.
Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, in which case you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging
thought.”
—J. R. R. Tolkien

This work of fiction by Tolkien illustrates the reality that Jesus explains in John 15:16: “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.”

We were meant to be His people. We are appointed to bear fruit. He is the One we belong to, and He is orchestrating the sequence and events of our lives so that our lives produce eternal results (fruit that lasts). You are His, and He has given you the time you have to impact eternity. That is an encouraging thought.