Accepted

Ephesians 1:6

To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Accepted.

I always thought that just meant that He wanted us, that He chose us. However, when I look up the original Greek, it means, "to make graceful, charming, lovely, agreeable."

The word, "make", threw me so I looked back at the verse and it says, "made." Hmm. This is important.

In our sin, we are not lovely or even agreeable to God. We oppose Him and His ways. Our sin makes us filthy and even when we think we are doing good, "our righteousness are as filthy rags."

The important thing to realize is that He chose to make us clean and acceptable! He did all the world. It is nothing we can do!