Romans 9

Father, in your word you tell me you have purposes for your children according to your election. You are Almighty God, our creator. You are the potter, and your creation, including all people, is the clay.

If you, as God, want to show your wrath and make your power known by enduring with much long suffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction so that you can make known the riches of your glory on the vessels of mercy, which you prepared beforehand for your glory, that is your sovereign choice.

You state clearly that you will have mercy on whomever you elect to have mercy and that you will have compassion on whomever you will have compassion. You have mercy on whom you will, and on whom you will you will harden.

It is not my place to reply against you. How can I, the thing formed, judge your purposes, as the one who formed me. You have rights over me. I am your creation. Thankfully you have chosen me and made me your person. By your grace and election, Father, I am a child of the Living God.