Living In The Joy Of Being Chosen

 CHOSEN

Summer is a time for weddings and there’s been an uptick in those this summer as we move beyond the confines of the pandemic of the past couple of years. 

It has me thinking about the beauty of being chosen.

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

Colossians 3:12

Heavenly Father, we want to live with You today and let Your life be expressed in who we are and all we do.  Help us to live into our identity as chosen ones today.  Fill our minds with understanding of how beautiful it is that we are chosen by You and let that seep into our hearts and overflow into all our relationships with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Amen

We know how valued we are as chosen ones of God because He was willing to give the life of Jesus so we could live in loving relationship with Him forever.

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Colossians 3:1, 3

Loving God, We don’t want this to simply be some spiritual understanding that gets filed away for future reference when we stand before You at the end of time to be used as our ticket into heaven.  We want that life, that resurrection power of Jesus in us – that oneness with You of living into the reality of being so highly valued by You – to fill our conscious awareness today in a way that becomes a deep source of gratitude and the motivation of everything we do today.  Strip away all the other clutter and bring us back to the amazement this gift deserves.  Amen

… put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator … but Christ is all, and is in all.

Colossians 3:10-11