"I CHOSE YOU!"

John 15:14-16                      (ESV)

"14 You are MY friends if you do what I command you.

15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my FATHER I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose ME, but "I CHOSE YOU" and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the FATHER in MY NAME, HE may give it to you."

Have you ever wondered "why did GOD choose me"?  Why did GOD pick me out of the billions of people HE has created to live inside of? 1 Corinthians 3:16 says "Do you not know that you are GOD's temple and that GOD's Spirit dwells in you"?  Why did GOD choose me instead of a billionaire who has everything to offer HIM?  

We are chosen by GOD to be tools to work for HIM during our time left here in this world"!  The Apostle Paul goes so far to call himself a slave (according to some translations) to JESUS CHRIST.  Then why don't we act as slaves?  Most act as though they are too special to be used for menial tasks such a feeding the poor, or helping someone who is on drugs, or any other social outcast.  GOD ALMIGHTY clothed HIMSELF in humanity and descended from Heaven because I had nothing to offer HIM and hell was my destination.  

But HE doesn't call us HIS slaves.  In the scripture above HE says rather bluntly "I CHOSE YOU", you didn't choose ME!  The only reason Believers have a reason for smiling is that JESUS lives inside of us and HE does that because "I CHOSE YOU"!  Some wear their finest clothes to church on Sunday, but the facts are the only reason we aren't on "skid row" is because "I CHOSE YOU"!  We aren't worthy of being chosen, but HE did it anyway.......FOR HIS GLORY!!!

There are many times I am told that I am a "miracle" because of GOD delivering me through some health issues in the past.  Everyone of us Believers is a miracle because "I CHOSE YOU" one day in the past!  Or has HE?????