Election of Saints, Is: Sovereign

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,