SSMT: Verse 8

It doesn't have to be a big verse to be meaningful.

And choosing to focus on a short verse isn't cheating. :)

I found this verse last week, when I was researching verses on being chosen, because let's face it...sometimes we need to remember that life isn't gym class, and God isn't going to choose us last for dodge ball. {Not that I have any haunting memories of that sort of thing happening in real life...}

But just in case I actually do have haunting memories of that...I ask you...do you know what it's like firsthand to not be chosen? For dodge ball? For a science fair project partner? For the varsity team? For the college you wanted? For the job you hoped to get? For the house you bid on? For the baby you wanted to adopt? For the husband you prayed to marry?

Rejection hurts. Being passed over hurts.

And that's where the lies begin. The lies that we're not good enough, not worth enough, not _________ enough.

And then this verse:

For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you.

~ 1 Thessalonians 1:4 ~

I swim in the comfort of that verse.

I may have been the fat, uncoordinated fourth-grader that no one {rightfully so, unfortunately} wanted protecting them from the stinging rubber gym balls. I might have been the introverted, timid pseudo-professional the publishing house didn't want for their editing team. I may have been the awkward one who showed up for the play audition and screamed the part in in an effort to be believable and instead of being the exciting step-mother...I was relegated to narrator. I may have been the girl who watched the man she prayed for marry another. {But WOW did I ever get a better answer!}

People may have passed me by. But He has chosen me.

Grateful.