You are still chosen

You are still chosen

Do you ever ask where you go from here? Are you down because you haven't seen certain things you hoped that would happen? Perhaps you had some losses in your life, and you think God is punishing you, or maybe you think that he has forgotten about you.

I know that when I come to church, there is always a message that I need to hear. 

I have been feeling this lately. When will I be called to do what he has chosen for me? Why are all these losses happening to me? Has he forgotten about me? 

We all feel this at one time or another, but the message today is that God is right where you are. But maybe you are living in the past.

Let me tell you that you are still chosen. We are all struggling in how to maintain our confidence with our own failures and the pressure to live up to society. You may be looking at other people and think they haven't made any mistakes or fewer than you have. You think that you could never be great because of what happened to you. You've been abused. You feel like you always fail. You've made some bad choices. Your trauma of your past is following you, and you can't get over it 

We all have made dumb decisions. We wasted money on looking good and still have nothing inside. We have all messed up in relationships or in our careers, but you can't let that keep you down. Maybe it's the pressure of society saying you're not married or why haven't you had a baby or a house or be at this certain point of your career. So we get sucked into trends or into a religion that tells us that we better not fail so that we can "fit in"

Religion and God are different. Religion is known to change how they feel about us. If we follow the rules, then we are loved and accepted, but if we do not, then they throw us out and tell us we are not good enough. But God loves unconditionally no matter 

what we do, no matter how many mistakes we make.

"He came to seek the lost."

He came to see the people who messed up. The castaways, and the unloved. He came here for them, to show us that it's not about the priests, or about the holier than thou people but the people who are lost and broken. We can be transformed into his perfect image, and there is a pathway to becoming the salt and light of the earth. There is a pathway to the greatest.

"You are a chosen race, who called you out of darkest, into his marvelous light

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander"

See, he speaks of how you are chosen and precious to him.

So today, my friends remember that no matter how many things you've done in your past, you are still chosen, and you still have what it takes to be who God wants you to be. You can give hope to others about your belief in God.

Never forget that God has chosen you, so whatever you ask in his name, he will provide. Nothing that you have done or can do will change that. Please know that you are chosen, and know that you don't have to be perfect for God to use you.

"Be the change you want to see,"

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