Today on Insight for Living from Chuck's Windall.

The Lord chose you because He chose to choose you.

He set His love upon us because in the goodness of His own heart,

He said, I want you to be mine.

It's like all of us begin our lives in the midst of an enormous orphanage

and God our Father steps on the scene and says, I want you.

In a court of law, when the judge drops His gavel with a thud,

onlookers pay due attention.

But following a case when the judge declares this one word,

you can almost hear a pin drop.

A Paul is cast when the audience feels the gravity of this one condemning word, guilty.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck's Windall talks about the spiritual implications of shame.

He's especially addressing the nagging internal struggle with guilt

and God's merciful solution for His chosen ones.

Teaching from 1 Peter 2, Chuck titled His message, Hope Beyond Guilt.

I think if I were to ask adults to write God a letter and take a rambling sample of what they write,

I think it would be altogether different than what they wrote His children.

As a matter of fact, I think probably there will be written across the pages of those letters,

feelings of guilt and fear.

That's why for the next few minutes, I want us to turn in our Bibles

and get a rather quick and simple profile of God's appraisal of us.

He has taken us in our brokenness and He has made something beautiful of our lives.

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