HIS BY CHOICE
Our lives are ours to make them the Fathers, and they are the Fathers only as we make them so by submission to His grace in Jesus and His power through the Holy Spirit. When God the Father is only power and Word and force from without and not the pursuing and presence within by the Holy Spirit, we cannot become His by free choice and free will.
The Holy Spirit must prepare us from within to receive the loving Father through the grace of Jesus. This is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. We can know this only by our personal intelligence, affection, will and voluntary action as we exercise within what the fellowship of the Holy Spirit has brought; which is death to the old self and life in the love and goodness of God through the grace of Jesus. It is by faith and faith alone. Not by thinking good Bible thoughts but by nothing…grace and only grace. By choice.
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.” Jesus