You are Chosen4God 4 a Purpose

  

Rom 9:23-24 “And that He might make known the riches of His Glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.”

Life can play some cruel tricks on you at the most critical time in your life.  This is a harsh statement, but true, you would be expecting one thing and WHAM! here comes a problem that knocks you off balance or here's a sickness that will test the faith that you have been telling the world that you have.  Nevertheless, the path that we are all on is different and there will be different results and no two paths are the same.

Sometimes it's not a problem or sickness or trials, but it's someone in your life that has let you down or someone has disappointed you. Your feelings are hurt, you become angry with the thought of never  having anything to do with them but somehow we find ourselves back in their company believing the lies all over.  Our trust has been shattered and now we recede back into our safe corner never truly trusting anyone again. 

What does this say about the type of person we are? What are we looking for that we aren't getting? Where do we need to turn to for the right answers? Many of us are in dark places, our hearts are bound up like little precious trinkets wrapped in tissue and an handkerchief set high in a closet out of sight.  Then many of us aren't sure if we're coming or going, our minds are boggled with this, that and the other and our focused is scattered so that nothing is accomplish.  

Well know this my friend, God has called us "out of darkness and into His marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9).  If you think about the word "Chosen" what comes to mind?  One definition is:  "hand picked, elected, assigned to a purpose" so God has looked down from heaven and He has hand picked you out from among world. You see, we had nothing to do with God's choice He tells us; "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." {Rom 8:29 KJV}

Even the word "Predestinate" confirms God's choice, it means "foreordained, decided in advance" When we understand that God has called us out, even before we ever came to Him, then we should shout for joy because He gave us something that He will develop and use at the appointed time.  We must not let darkness dictate our life, our decisions,  our actions not even our hopes.  God said that He "...hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will," {Eph 1:3-5 KJV}

The way we come out of darkness is to grab hold of the truth of  God and what He says about us, that you have been called out, you are chosen, you are anointed, you are not alone, you are holy and beloved and so much more.  We fight the darkness by knowing that God has chosen us for a purpose, that we matter to Him and that as light is received then the darkness has to flee. We must believe the Word more than what the enemy tries to  convince us of, God's Word is His bond and He can't go back on what He has said and promised.

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