God Chose Us

Isaiah 49:1-6
Islands, listen to me,
pay attention, remotest peoples.
Yahweh called me before I was born,
from my mother’s womb he pronounced my name.

He made my mouth a sharp sword,
and hid me in the shadow of his hand.
He made me into a sharpened arrow,
and concealed me in his quiver.

He said to me, ‘You are my servant (Israel)
in whom I shall be glorified’;
While I was thinking, 'I have toiled in vain,
I have exhausted myself for nothing’:

And all the while my cause was with Yahweh,
my reward with my God.
I was honoured in the eyes of Yahweh,
my God my strength.

And now Yahweh has spoken,
He who formed me in the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him,
to gather Israel to him:

'It is not enough for you to be my servant,
to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back the survivors of Israel;
I will make you the light of the nations
so that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth'

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Wow!

Isn't it nice to know that God chose us even before we were born? :)

Unlike Sam who was born 2 months premature, I was 1 month overdue!

According to my mummy, it was a cold stormy Halloween evening, with a lady screaming her lungs out next door. Ha ha! sounds so drama.


"It was you who created my inmost self,
and put together in my mother’s womb;
For all these mysteries I thank you:
for the wonder of myself, for the wonder of your works.

You know me through and through,
from having watched my bones take shape
When I was being formed in secret
knitted together in the limbo of the womb"

~Psalms 139:13-15