God's gift of adoption

Today was a travel day for me, a time to be alone in a very special way with the Lord. Through the grace of God, I chose to begin again to read the letters of St. Paul. What a gift he left us in all of the epistles. The ones I read today in their entirety were his letter to the Romans and 1 Corinthians.  I was deeply touched by many phrases but especially by the statement in Rom 11:5-6 that "there are a few people God has chosen by his grace" and "it is not for things they have done. If they could be made God's people by what they did, God's gift of grace would not really be a gift." What an awesome God, who gave His only begotten Son to ransom us from sin and adopt us as His children, a chosen people set apart to serve Him and one another!  How great thou art, O God!