May God's unmerited favor and his perfect harmony be yours eternally! May you come to know him as "Father" and know Jesus as Lord. Praise God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one who has bestowed great blessing upon you from his glorious kingdom in the heavenly realms. Father God has given us everything we need in Christ. He chose us to be in love with him before he spoke life and created the heavens and the earth. We were created to be his image bearers, holy and blameless, perfected not by our own self righteousness, but by the righteousness of Jesus Christ. In his great love, we have a destiny, a destiny that is wrapped up in his loving adoption of us. This adoption comes courtesy of Jesus Christ, because while we were shaking our little balled fists at him, he loved us so, loved us enough to die for our lives. We are members of the family of God, not because of our goodness or generousity, but because of the loving desire of a Heavenly F