Daily Devotional 9-18-2021
Rom 9:8 That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring. It is not physical descent that counts. The true Israel consists of those Jews who were selected by God and to whom He made some specific promise, marking them out as His children. We see this principle of sovereign election in the cases of Isaac and Jacob.