JIM CAIN
“Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love” Ephesians 1:4
Don’t we all long to be accepted, to belong? So many messages tell us we do not. We get cut from the basketball team, the social club invitation never comes, and we’re dropped from the honor roll, or lose the big promotion we thought was in the bag at work. Everything from acne to anorexia leaves us feeling like the little kid with no date to the prom.
We react. We validate our existence with a flurry of activity. We do more, buy more, and achieve more. We try to say the right things, wear the right clothes, and hang out with the right crowd. We try to get in and fit in. All of it is a way of asking that age old question, “Do I belong? Do I have worth?”
God has the answer. His grace, His outrageous, overflowing, stretching beyond the limits of our human imagination - is the definitive reply, “Be blessed, my child. I love you. I accept you just the way you are. I have adopted you into my Family.” Adopted children are chosen children.
Consider this, make sure you can wrap your mind around it. Accept it, enjoy it. There is something about you that God absolutely adores. You cause his eyes to widen, His heart to beat a little faster, He chose you to be in His family, never doubt it, and never forget it.
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