#chosen #waterwalkinggirls

Chosen: having been selected as the best or most appropriate.  There are many places in our lives that we may be chosen and our view of what it means to be chosen may change depending on our age and the situation.  Sometimes being chosen is positive and sometimes it is negative. Whatever the situation, you and I must learn to respond to being chosen in a Christ-like manner.

When I was a child and playing with my peers I wanted to be chosen.  Being chosen signified acceptance.  Sometimes I desired to be chosen to be on a certain person’s kick ball team. Other times the goal was to be chosen to attend a birthday party for someone that was a part of the “in” crowd. However as I have grown older God has taught me that my worth does not come from earthly opinions but from the opinion of the One True King.

As an adult I find that sometimes being chosen can lead me in a negative direction.  I may be chosen to do a difficult or uncomfortable task.  Being chosen to complete something hard may cause me to want to hide or revert to my childhood practice of not making eye contact with the teacher to avoid being called on to answer a question.  Do you have a difficult task lurching in the dark corners of your life? Is there a task that you know needs to be done but you are avoiding making eye contact with the Master because you don’t want to be the one chosen?

I am sure you are familiar with Esther in the Bible.  However if you are not, I encourage you to read the book of Esther to learn about the events that led her to became Queen.  Some may call her circumstances coincidental but as a Christian I believe differently and her Uncle Mordecai did too. Esther found herself in the position to make a difference but she had to choose whether she should speak up or remain quiet. Mordecai sent word to her, “If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jew will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die.  Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?” Esther 4:14

So now I ask again, is there a task that you know you have been called to but you are avoiding making eye contact with the Master because you don’t want to be the one chosen?  Is there something you have been chosen to speak up and say? Has God laid on your heart a difficult path that you are needed to walk through?  Has God chosen you to tackle a problem “for such a time as this?” I encourage you to listen to the words of the song below.  My prayer is that we listen to our individual call from above and that we say yes! The chorus of the song says:

Just a moment for a lifetime. For such a time as this, I say yes! I’ve been chosen to arise. For such a time as this, I say yes!

Take some time to sit still and listen.  Examine the current climate around you.  Is God calling you to speak up and act? Have you been chosen to make a difference in your home, your workplace, your church, your community? How will you respond? Will you avert your eyes in hopes that you don’t make eye contact with God? Will you remain still and silent? Or will you respond as Christ would? Let’s say yes! Let’s arise! For such a time of this, let’s say yes!