“GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU!”

“GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU!”

Deuteronomy 7:6-11                                                     (ESV)
“6 "For you are a people holy to the LORD your GOD. The LORD your “GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU” to be a people for HIS treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set HIS love on you and chose you, for YOU WERE THE FEWSET of all peoples,
8 but it is because the LORD LOVES YOU and is keeping the oath that HE swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and REDEEMED YOU from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the LORD your GOD is GOD, the FAITHFUL GOD WHO KEEPS COVENANT and steadfast love with THOSE WHO LOVE HIM and keep HIS commandments, to a thousand generations,
10 and repays to their face those who hate HIM, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates HIM. HE will repay him to HIS face.
11 YOU SHALL BE CAREFUL TO DO THE COMMANDMENT AND THE STATUTES AND THE RULES THAT I COMMAND YOU TODAY.”

When I begin to search for something specific in Scripture, and am determined to establish that my way of thinking is what I am needing to be focused on, ALMIGHTY GOD usually proves to my almost self-righteous person that Scripture is intended to CHANGE me to be more in HIS IMAGE!!!  Being convinced that we are correct is precisely where we don’t want to be, for growing in HIM should be where we begin every day we are allowed to breathe HIS air!

He thing that every person must acknowledge is that we are not better than the vilest of sinners, but that “GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU” to be a beacon for HIM.  We do not deserve anything except death and destruction.  Just because we go to church most Sunday mornings, give a few dollars to HIS Kingdom, and maybe used by HIM to fulfill a need of someone in need, doesn’t mean that we are better than the next person.  The fact that “GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU” however should excite us, even if we are CHOSEN to SUFFER for HIM!

The Children of Israel were THE FEWEST of all peoples, were certainly not wealthier than most, and had no traits to set them ABOVE others in
“this world”!  But when “GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU” your worth is beyond earthly calculations, for YAHWEH is above everything we can fathom!

We can’t SEE the magnitude of GOD’s power, the vastness of GOD’s love, we can’t grasp the patience with our unbelief, nor understand HIS mercy.  In Exodus 33:18 Moses says “Please show me YOUR glory."  GOD lovingly says in verses 20-23 “you cannot see MY face, for man shall not see me and live."  And the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by ME where you shall stand on the rock, and while MY glory passes by I WILL PUT YOU IN A CLEFT OF THE ROCK, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will take away MY hand, and you shall see MY back, but MY face shall not be seen."  Even though Moses only saw the back of the GLORY OF GOD, he “shone” (glowed) for literally weeks!

We might have a desire to SEE GOD’S GLORY, but we cannot handle it with our earthly limitations.  Nevertheless, ALMIGHTY “GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU” to be a reflection of HIS GLORY to a lost and dying world.  Not because we a holier than others, but because “ GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU”!!!