Does it mean you are set apart to do things that those who are not chosen can’t do? Does it mean you are on the frontline leading, and showing others the way to go? Does it mean you have the answers while others are still trying to figure things out?
These are questions that we may not ask ourselves, and yet if we are followers of Jesus, we have been chosen. We have been called to stand out from among the crowd, we are called to swim upstream while others are swimming with the current, and we are called to deliver truth even when it puts us at personal risk.
To be chosen is to be called into a life that is not average. Everyone on this planet was created with a God given purpose, a purpose that is not average, but to be chosen is to acknowledge you are different. In that difference you desire to understand everything about life and how you fit into God’s plan.
To be chosen requires a response. You and I must respond to the call on our lives to live and walk out our destiny in Christ and as Christ. We are chosen to show the world who it is Who chose us in the first place, and that it was our yes that got us to the this very place.
Ephesians 1:3-10 Blessed and worthy of praise be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ, just as (in His love) He chose us in Christ (actually selected us for Himself as His own) before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy (that is, consecrated, set apart for Him, purpose-driven) and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined and lovingly planned for us to be adopted to Himself as (His own) children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the kind intention and good pleasure of His will—to the praise of His glorious grace and favor, which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved (His Son, Jesus Christ). In Him we have redemption (that is, our deliverance and salvation) through His blood, (which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in) the forgiveness and complete pardon of our sin, in accordance with the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and understanding (with practical insight) He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, with regard to the fulfillment of the times (that is, the end of history, the climax of the ages)—to bring all things together in Christ, (both) things in the heavens and things on the earth.