In your mind, go back before the birth of Christ. Go back before Moses and Abraham. Go back before Adam and Eve. Go back “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4). Ephesians opens a window into eternity before time, and into the mind of God Himself. What a privilege! Now look. What do you see there in God’s mind? You see “us” – His chosen family!
[He] chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him (Ephesians 1:4). M
Before time begins, God knows that He will make the world. He knows that we will sin. He already plans for His Son to suffer in our place. He planned our salvation from before creation. God, who sees the end from the beginning, already knows those “written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8; 17:8).1 From eternity He looks ahead and makes His choice.