His Chosen Ones

Watching “The Chosen” series, I have been enlightened to what it might have looked like back in the days when Jesus walked, talked, healed, corrected, uplifted, raised people from the dead, performed miracles of loaves and fishes, and taught the masses.

Seriously, I don’t read a scripture in the New Testament now without seeing it in my mind with technicolor – quite unlike the days of Sunday School flannel board images of Jesus and the disciples and the rest of those in those Bible times.

What a blessing it is for us to have the Bible AND to see actors and actresses playing the biblical characters on screen today. But, Just because we live in these modern, high-tech times, doesn’t mean God is playing favorites with us today any more than it seemed He played favorites back when He was alive and well on this earth.

God doesn’t play favorites — regardless of our background, status, or whether we are pure as the driven snow or a lost, impure sinner. It doesn’t matter whether we’re a religious person, a formerly religious person, or if we have any religious background at all.

When I think about the words “The Chosen”, I usually consider the Jews who have been called “God’s chosen people”. Somehow, “God’s chosen people” sounds like God loves them more than He loves those of us who aren’t Jews. But He doesn’t. They were chosen for a purpose — to spread the message to everyone else that there is one true God. They were kind of like missionaries to the rest of us.

Now God includes everyone who puts their faith in Christ, regardless of their background. God says His salvation is available to anybody who opens his or her heart in faith: “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:13)

Good news is there are no quotas in heaven. The Bible doesn’t say only really, really good people will be saved if they call on the name of the Lord. EVERYONE who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

There are a lot of folks who believe they must work their way to heaven. But the truth is God’s gift of grace is what He offers all of us – free of charge! We don’t have to work our way into heaven. What we need is to accept God’s gift of salvation through Christ. That is what makes us “His Chosen”!

Romans 4:16 says, “The promise is not only for those who live under the law of Moses but for anyone who lives with faith like that of Abraham.” The Jews were/are those people who live under the Law of Moses. They were chosen FIRST and were given the ways of God before we were.

Now, we are ALL IN as God’s CHOSEN ONES. There is nothing we can do that will cause us to be loved any more or any less than He loves us right now. This is our time to shine. We’ve been chosen to set a new standard for our families, our neighbors, our friends.

We’ve been chosen to live a victorious, abundant life. And when thoughts tell us, “You’re unworthy, you’re not qualified,” declare “Thank you, Father. I AM worthy. I have been CHOSEN for such a time as this!”