Chosen

1 Corinthians 9:22 to the weak I became as[a] weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. (NKJV)

"Being chosen." I've often wondered how that works.

Today Mr. Chambers tells me that I am not to be a "worker" for God by choice. Today, our liberty to choose our own actions and pursue our own happiness is championed. But he says that "Unless we have the right matter in our minds intellectually and in our hearts affectionately, we will be hustled out of usefulness to God." My Utmost for His Highest 

He warns of the woe that will be upon me if I turn to the right or to the left, once God has put His call on me. I may not have chosen to be a "worker." But I must choose to obey once I feel God's call to work for His kingdom. I must choose to do and to be whatever God calls me to do, "..that I might by all means save some."

I don't write because I have aspirations of becoming the next best selling author. I don't wake up each morning of my own strength, thinking what great things I can do today. (Or that I can sometimes even manage to find joy in the new day.) I write because it is what I know God has called me to do. He has confirmed it many times in many ways. I wake up with the strength of the Lord, praying that He gives me something great to do for Him. I may not be "happy" about my lot in life. I want things to change and my life to be the way I think it should be and how it would most honor God. God has given me the patience to wait for those changes. 

And so I wait - joyously. For what He has already done. And I wait with expectant joy for what He is going to do.

While I wait, however, I will work at those things in which He has called me to do. For some reason, He has chosen me to live this life He's given me. 

Why He is doing it, we do not know; He is doing it for one purpose only - that He may be able to say  This is My man, My woman. My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers

I will live it out the best way that I can for Him and through the power of His Holy Spirit. Because he called me to tell others about Him.

1 Peter 2:9  But you are a chosen people, royal priests, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession. You were chosen to tell about the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (NCV)