We’re coming up on prom season. You’ll hear about it even if you don’t decide to go or if you’re not old enough yet. The gossip is all about where to buy the best dress, where to rent the tux, who’s riding together to dinner, where you’re going to eat… so many choices. Choices are sometimes hard to make and sometimes they’re really easy. Each girl who goes looking for a dress will ultimately try on several, fret over which one, and then bite the bullet and choose. It has to be the perfect dress for the perfect occasion.
Perfection is what we look for when choosing. We have some standard in mind and we try to find the thing that most closely matches that standard. We don’t always get perfection, but we want it. Sometimes when we look at ourselves we don’t see perfection. We hear people say, especially parents, “you’re perfect just as you are.” But many times we don’t believe it. Who would choose me? Why would they choose me?
Isn’t it awesome to read a piece of scripture like Ephesians 1 and to see that God has chosen us:
- v. 4 For He chose us in him before the creation of the world to e holy and blameless in his sign.
- v. 11 In him we were also chosen having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.
God chose you! Before you even knew who you were, He chose you! Not only has he chosen you, but when Jesus comes into your life, He makes you whole and perfect in God’s sight! How cool is it to know that if God were choosing out of the entire world, he was looking for that perfect someone, and he picked you! You are special and you are loved by a perfect God, who makes you perfect in his sight. Think about that today as you lounge around. Let it soak in and realize how much God cares for you.
God loves you and so do I… have a great day!
-brent
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