To Be...Chosen

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We chose this young man's father to be our children's football pen-pal
years ago at UNC.  Thirty-four years later we are still family and got to be 
part of celebrating the Pittsburg Steelers choosing him.

 "We were designed to find our fullest
satisfaction not in front of a mirror,
but in front of God."
John Piper 
April 28
Last night The Pittsburg Steelers chose Mason Rudolph as an NFL quarterback pick.  It was later in the draft than he'd hoped to go, but God was up to good.  In their previous pick they selected James Washington, who was one of Mason's teammates and a receiver at Oklahoma State. Now these two will start their NFL careers together. And to boot, this is our grandson's favorite team!!!  Here we come Pittsburg.

Back in April I wrote an entry on being "For God" and addressed the life process of choosing.  Everyday we make choices...what we say or don't say, what wear and we eat, whose texts we return, with whom we associate, whether we open God's Word or stop to pray...and on and on the choices go all day.

 We do not choose God, God chooses us. "You didn't choose me. I chose you, I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name."
John 15:16

"It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone."  Ephesians 1:11-12  

 "Do this because you are a people set apart as holy to God, your God. God, your God, chose you out of all the peeople on Earth for himself as a cherished, personal treasure." Deuteronomy 7:6


 Go deeper. This is an excellent sermon by John Piper concerning being chosen!  Great teaching!
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/ten-reasons-to-revel-in-being-chosen

"Consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.  But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God."  1 Corinthians 1:26-29

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