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I stood awkwardly amongst my peers, all in a row, gaze focused downward on the dewy grass of the ball field. 'Why do we have to play these games in school anyway,' I wonder, "and why can't the teacher just split us up into teams? I HATE this!' Feeling as if the whole world was starring at me and jeering, 'You're no good. Why would we choose you? We'll lose if you're on our team!' - my self esteem shrivels as each name is called that isn't mine. And as the group I stood amongst became smaller and smaller, the desperate pleas in my mind became louder and louder. 'Please pick me, please pick me. Please don't let me be the last chosen!"
In the world, this is how it most often works - people waiting, seeking, hoping to be chosen. Whether by classmates for a game as a child, or as an adult for an employer for a job. Whether to be a spouse, on a committee, or part of a ministry group. Whatever it may be, to be included in these "teams" we usually have to be chosen first. But not when it comes to God's Kingdom. Here we have already been chosen.
"For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession." -Deuteronomy 7:6
In God, we don't have to wait anxiously shuffling our feet wondering, 'Will my name be called next? Will I make the team?' In God, we don't have to be "good" enough to be included.
For IN GOD we are chosen first. IN GOD there is no last. IN GOD we are celebrated, honored, treasured.
