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.