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You Were Chosen

For many are invited, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22:14

When I chose a rose for my garden, I don’t pick it based on one characteristics of the rose; I pick it based on the totality of the rose. So not only do I pick a rose based on its color, I chose it on how the blooms are going to look. Will the blooms have lots and lots of petals or just a few?  I chose it based on the fragrance; is it lightly fragranced or is it heavily fragranced?  Does it smell like honey or does it smell like a traditional rose?

I also look at the type of leaves the rose is going to have. Will the leaves be bright green and shiny or will they be a matted green? I also look at the stem of the roses; will they be long stemmed so I can use the rose in a single rose vase or will they be short stemmed so I can use them in an arrangement?

You see, everything that the rose is goes into my decision-making process of whether I’m going to plant it in my garden. Yes, each facet of the rose is important, but one piece without the others doesn’t make the rose what it really is. It is the totality of the rose plant that makes the rose what I want in my garden.

God does the same thing with us. When God chooses us to do an assignment he chooses us based on the totality of who we are; our temperament, the things that we’ve gone through to bring us to the place where we are now, our looks, our background and upbringing. All these things make us who we are and, they are the reasons God chooses us for our assignments.

Unfortunately, all too often we look at ourselves through the eyes of the world system. We only see what we think the world sees when it looks at us. The world system says repeatedly, we must be super model thin to be considered worthy of being called attractive. The world system says we must be rich or famous to be counted amount those whom others should listen to. The world system says we must be educated with the right type of degrees and from the right schools or we’ll be outsiders and not allowed to join them at the popular table.

No matter what the world tells us, it does not stop God from doing what he’s going to do and it shouldn’t stop us from doing what God has assigned us to do.

If God has given you an assignment, and he has given us all an assignment, what the world system says about you doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. When God gave each of us our assignments, he had already measured the totality of who we are and he knows we can successfully complete the assignment.

The world system only knows the labels it has placed on us. God knows who he created us to be.

“But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” I Corinthians 1:27

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