Are you chosen?

Okay - that's a question that needs a little explaining.

We're not talking about the trauma you received in your grade school PE class when two team captains chose who they wanted on their dodge ball team!

We're not talking about submitting your resume' with the hopes that yours shines brighter than the rest! Will they choose you?

What we're talking about is much more about life and death - eternal life and death, that is.

Has God chosen you?

Now that's a little deeper question...don't you think?

It's also a question that ticks some people off even as it fills some hearts with gratitude.

Chosen by God? Doesn't that just smack of elitism - of better-than-you-ism?

Or...maybe I didn't do anything to earn it! Maybe I'm just as surprised as the next person that God would choose me over others...after all, I've lived in this skin and know the sinful jerk I've been.

Yet, God in His mercy chose me before He even created the world? Man, that just about blows my mind out the top of my bald head!

I'm praising God for His kindness and grace today.

Saying, "Yes".

Okay, so how do you know when to say, "Yes", and when to look the other way?

I mean, Moses was secure in his mundane life of shepherding. "What is this flaming voice telling me to do? You want me to go where...do what?!?"

"Come on, I'm too unqualified...after all, why would the people of Israel believe me...not to mention the Pharaoh! I mean whom shall I say sent me?"

"I AM", was God's reply.

And, He still IS!

God is still the enabler of the unqualified - the One who calls the broken and unprepared to service.

But He goes with us...and that's what makes it okay. Just as God empowered Moses so He does with you and me.

Maybe what God invites you to do isn't as dramatic as what God called Moses to do; however, has He invited you...called you to do something? Anything? One thing...now?

Are you in a habit of saying, "Yes", when God calls your name?

No, it might not be a flaming bush on fire as you walk your dog some evening; however, does the Spirit prompt you to do good to someone in the name of Jesus?

Maybe a submissive posture of "Yes" is all that is required.

"Yes, Lord, I'll talk to that person...I'll help this other person...I'll share my faith with..."

When we're used to saying "Yes" to God in the little opportunities maybe we'll hear more clearly when we are asking God for wisdom in the bigger things?