Faith: You are Chosen

There are times in my life and I am sure in your lives too that we feel overlook by others:

• We didn’t get the job we interviewed for
• The boy we liked didn’t see us in the same way we liked him
• In school we were last to be picked for football / netball teams
• We didn’t get to be prefect in our final year at school
• We didn’t get accepted to the University of our Choice
• We didn’t get invited to a party that everyone else you knew was going to
• Someone you thought of as a friend declined your Facebook invite

It can be very difficult to be overlooked and feel rejected.  But it happens to everyone at sometimes in our lives.

In the Old Testament David was overlooked by his father Jesse, when Samuel was looking for someone to be the new king, because he was the youngest son, not as strong as his older brothers and he was only a shepherd boy.  However God told Samuel David was the one he had chosen to be King after Saul because he saw something in him that no one else saw  (1 Samuel 16) - God looks at the inside and the state of our hearts whereas man only judges on the outside.  

David was overlooked by others but handpicked by God. And it is the same as us, we may feel overlooked by others but we were hand-picked by God – God chose us, He organised for us to be here on earth.  As John 15 v 16a says “You did not choose me, but I choose you and appointed you”.

So the next time you don’t get the job you really wanted, or someone walks past you and ignores you, or the boy you liked said no – or whatever it is you didn’t get picked / chosen for – remember it doesn’t really matter as you were chosen to be here by God – he organised for you to be here.  You were chosen and you are wanted by God.