Chosen and Marked

Chosen and Marked

 

 Sorry, Stevie Wonder,

God wrote the words to this song first.

  

Every once in a while I hear a song

or think of a song from the past and

I wonder what would that song sound like

if it were written by a Christian.

Stevie Wonder sings a song that makes me question

if he didn’t hear the words from God and

directed them towards a woman, rather than God.

The Song is “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”

 

Just change two words “girl” and “baby”

to God and this is what you get.

 

Like a fool I went and stayed too long
Now I’m wondering if your loves still strong
Oo God, here I am, signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours

Then that time I went and said goodbye
Now I’m back and not ashamed to cry
Oo God, here I am, signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours

Here I am God
Oh, you’ve got the future in your hand
signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours

Here I am God,
Oh, you’ve got the future in your hand
signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours
I’ve done a lot of foolish things
That I really didn’t mean
Hey, hey, yea, yea, didn’t I, Oh God

Seen a lot of things in this old world
When I touched them they did nothing, God
Oo God, here I am, signed, sealed, delivered,

I’m yours, Oh I’m yours

Oo-wee God you set my soul on fire
That’s why I know you are my only desire
Oo God, here I am, signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours

Here I am God
Oh, you’ve got the future in your hand
signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours

Here I am God,
Oh, you’ve got the future in your hand
signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours

I’ve done a lot of foolish things
That I really didn’t mean
I could be a broken man, but here I am

With your future, got your future God (here I am God)
Here I am God (signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours)
Here I am God, (here I am God)
Here I am God (signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours)
Here I am God, (here I am God)
Here I am God (signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours)

 

 In Ephesians 1, we are told God

has chosen us in Christ Jesus

and marked us with a seal.

You and I are marked with

the promised Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance

until the redemption of those who are God's possession

— to the praise of His glory.

Stevie said, “you’ve got the future in your hand”

…as wonderful as babies and girls are,

they can not hold the future in their hand.

God has you and I

signed, sealed and ready for delivery

by the Holy Spirit.

A glorious inheritance signed by God Himself.

The same Spirit that raised Jesus

from the dead lives in you and I.

Now that is hope!

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 1:11-14 NIV

11 In him we were also chosen,

having been predestined according to the plan of him

who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,

12 in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ,

might be for the praise of his glory.

13 And you also were included in Christ

when you heard the word of truth,

the gospel of your salvation.

Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal,

the promised Holy Spirit,

14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance

until the redemption of those who are God's possession

— to the praise of his glory.

Romans 8:9-11 NIV

9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit,

if the Spirit of God lives in you.

And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,

he does not belong to Christ.

10 But if Christ is in you,

your body is dead because of sin,

yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you,

he who raised Christ from the dead

will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit,

who lives in you.