The Chosen. Post 236
The Chosen child is our Savior and His name is Jesus. He is the model parent who will correct out of line children, but still has immense love for us. He was chosen to be our sacrificial lamb whose blood covers our sin.
In Old Testament times God allowed the blood from a perfect, unblemished animal to be shed to atone for the sins of the Israelites, but this shed blood never changed the hearts of people. They may have felt bad for a period of time but they kept on sinning, generation after generation and God knew that this system didn’t work. He wanted to show His people that no one can be perfect- not one- and therefore a Savior needed to come to save all people from their own foolish choices.
God then sent His son, the Chosen Child- born of a virgin (Mary). This Child was different, conceived by the Holy Spirit and having the DNA of only Mary. This child flipped the current world on its head. Instead of a King being born from a royal family line, Jesus was born from a genealogy that included Rahab (a prostitute), Tamar (a deceiver), Ruth (a widow), Bathsheba (an adulteress) and then Mary His mother -and that was only the female side of His genealogy. God then chose to have Jesus born in the most humble of accommodations- a stable- and placed in a feeding trough as His bed.
The significance of this is quite amazing. Jesus was placed in a feeding trough because He is our “bread” and “drink” so to speak. He is the only person/thing that can satisfy all that we thirst for and provide all that we truly need.
He is our provider:
Psalm 34:9-10
9 Fear the Lord, you his holy people,
for those who fear him lack nothing.
10 The lions may grow weak and hungry,
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
He protects us from deadly diseases:
Psalm 91:3
“Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.”
He keeps us from harm:
Psalm 91:9-11
If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
God is our ultimate Savior for every circumstance we encounter. We can do our part to use our life to the best of our abilities but our ultimate strength comes from God and not ourselves. This is what having faith is all about. If we have faith in God but don’t trust Him to come through for us, do we really have faith in the Chosen One? Faith = Trust. We can pray to God and ask for assistance at any time, and have faith that He will provide for us when we need it.
“Faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.”(Heb 11:1)
If we want the bigger and better conditional blessings that come from a life of obedience, we must meet His conditions like the condition of serving the Lord:
“You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and will take sickness away from among you.”(Exodus 23:25)
If we dedicate our life to serving Him we can count on His conditional blessings because:
“God is not human that He should lie, not a human being that He should change His mind, does He speak then not act, does He promise then not fulfill?”(Num 23:19)
The Lord Jesus Christ was the Chosen Child to pay for everything human beings do when we live in darkness. We will never be perfect, even after we choose to be born of the Spirit, but we become empowered to live better, to let anger go, to make better (God honoring) choices and to lead others into a life of true faith in God.
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”(John 4:34)
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Food For Thought,
Lisa
