From Eternity

^{Acts 15:14} Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name. ¹⁵ And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:        ¹⁶ ‘ After this I will return
      And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down;
      I will rebuild its ruins,
      And I will set it up;
       ¹⁷ So that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD,
      Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name,
      Says the LORD who does all these things.’
¹⁸ “Known to God from eternity are all His works.

^{God has chosen us to be a people for His name!  He has snatched us out of the hands of death, hell, and judgment so that we would seek the Lord.  We are called by His name, Lord God Almighty.  He has all power and HE always has had all power, all authority, all dominion; fully satisfied within His own self;  yet He said it was good to create us and HE knew from eternity all the good works He would do, and prepare for us to do!  Oh wow! the weight of this pursuit by a Holy God, who stands Alone and Above all!  Thank You Jesus for tearing the veil that sin had formed to separate us from Our Father, who knew us since before the beginning of time!  Thank You Holy Spirit, His own Spirit, which has revealed the mysteries of God to us in these earthen vessels, and will continue to bring to remembrance and reveal even more about the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ! Thank You God!  We worship and adore You, our hope, our love!
  1} Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. ² For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them,^[a] not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. ³ For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “ So I swore in My wrath,‘ They shall not enter My rest,’” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.  Hebrews 4:1-3