John 15:16 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.
Do you remember in school standing in line waiting to be picked for the sports team? Well you may have been one of the popular ones and been chosen right away but some of us, who weren’t very athletic, were often left till the end, feeling left out as though we really weren’t wanted!
David experienced the same thing. When Samuel came to Jesse’s house to anoint one of his sons to be king, he looked at the oldest who was a fine figure of a man but God said ‘Not him’. Samuel went through seven of the sons that way and then asked Jesse if he had any more sons and was told he had one more but he really didn’t count and was out in the fields anyway. Basically David was left out, his name was not in the hat! Even his dad didn’t think he’d amount to anything!
We read how God doesn’t look at the outward appearance but he looks at the heart (1 Samuel 16:7) and what he saw in David was what God wanted, regardless of how inadequate his own father thought he was or what he looked like!
Maybe you’ve felt left out sometimes, as though you didn’t matter, or weren’t wanted, or it feels like it’s always somebody else who’s being picked. Well can I tell you God has picked you and chosen you especially and He has some great plans for you.😊 God is looking at your heart not your outward appearance and if you’ve asked Jesus into your life as Lord and Saviour then you are definitely not left out but you have been brought into God’s family and seated in the place of honour in Jesus at the right hand of the Father on His throne!
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