Jesus' choice gave us a choice

God wanted a big family, but He couldn’t just snap His celestial fingers and make us His children. He wanted us to choose Him the way He had chosen us.

God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children. And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.” Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir. (Galat…