On gifts

Here's some more John 17 for you.
Jesus is praying to God, and starts to talk about his Disciples:
"I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me."
-John 17:6-8

Now there's something really neat to think about. Jesus' disciples were God's the whole time; even while Peter, Andrew, John, and James were lowly fishermen, they were God's possessions that He was planning on giving to his son.

Now i'm no calvinist, but how cool is it that nonchristians all around the world could actually be owned by God, future gifts to His Son that will go on to serve in ministry or leads hundreds to the way.
Being owned by god.
Being gifts to Jesus.

And there's another gift mentioned in those verses: the gift of the word.
John 1:1 opens with: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
And God gave that word to Jesus to tell us.
God's word was in the beginning, just like how Jesus' disciples were God's from the beginning. Both were gifts to his son.

That's some pretty neat gifting going on.
And we're a part of it.
Awesome.