AMEN! to that sister. grin

Typically, when people read, "Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated.", they ask, "How could God hate Esau?" But those who have been given to know their own sinfulness and unworthiness and something of the unfathomable holiness of God, they typically will ask, "How could God love Jacob?"

Your quoting 1Cor 4:7 vividly brought to mind something Paul wrote a couple of chapters before which has always been a passage that has humbled me, which is too often sorely needed:

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1 Corinthians 1:25-29 (ASV) 25 "Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; 28 and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: 29 that no flesh should glory before God."
God is good.

In His grace,

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