"God's Plan All Along"

"For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;" (Psalms 102:19)
There is one thing the Pastor Mike keeps repeating, almost every day, "that God cannot learn." It all comes down to the fact that God knows everything beforehand, and there is nothing the God does not know; so therefore, there is nothing that God needs to be taught, and there is nothing that He needs to find the answer for, because He already knows everything. God can and will complete what He has started in you! That much you can count on, because He chose you, you did not choose Him! Here is a really good test, if you need to test your salvation: Does your heart break when you sin? That's not really hard to examine within you own life; it's pretty easy to see whether or not your disobedience causes you grief and makes your heart ache. To be perfectly honest, it is most likely the Holy Spirit that is grieving within you, so don't give yourself more credit than you deserve. But the test is really simple, if we look within and see if what upsets God also upsets us. If we are not upset over the sins that we commit, then chances are that we have a serious problem; and if we seldom give it a second thought, then we need to get right or get left! There is nothing that God is not willing to forgive us for; and the only sin which cannot be forgive is refusing His unfailing forgiveness. The Bible clearly says, "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love." (Ephesians 1:4) There is really only one way that we can be holy and without blame, and that is to be washed in the blood of His Son! You cannot do anything on your own to achieve holiness; and you surely can't do anything to take away your blame. Talk about blame, it was our sins that put Jesus upon that cross; it was for my sins that Jesus suffered and died, so I am to blame, right from the start. But God! Oh my goodness! I wonder what came first, the thought of me or the thought of my redemption. We really could be blameless, in His sight...
"And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time as "foreigners in the land." For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. God chose him as your ransom long before the world began, but he has now revealed him to you in these last days." (1 Peter 1:17-20) NLT