God Chooses You

Now He said to me, ‘It is your son Solomon who shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be My son, and I will be his Father. 1 Chronicles 28:6 (NKJV)

David gathered all the leaders of the tribes of Israel, military captains, and everyone of importance in Jerusalem to let them know that he wanted to build the temple that the ark of the covenant would sit in. But God would not allow him to do so because he was a man of war and had shed blood. Instead, God choose David's son, Solomon, to build the temple, and that Solomon would be His son, and He would be his Father. David had older sons that by the Israelite custom should have been given the task of building the temple, but God's calling superseded the cultural or familial expectations of the time.

Just like Solomon, we are chosen by Jesus to follow Him, and we are His children and He is our Father. Jesus says in John 15:16, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.” How do we know if we are chosen? When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, accepting the work that He did on the cross for us, we know that we were chosen by God. In John 6:44, Jesus said, "All that the Father gives me will come to me." It can't be simpler than that.

If you are not sure if God has chosen you, choose to pray the sinner's prayer and know that you are chosen. God has chosen others who don't know they are chosen yet. Let them know that they are chosen by doing as Jesus commanded and making disciples of all nations, teaching them to obey His teachings and baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God chose you to be His child, and He to be your Father, and the only way to verify it, is for you to choose Him.