Continuing my discussion on being chosen…
When you are chosen by God, success is inevitable because God would never select you to do a work He wasn’t sure you could accomplish. The all-prescient Mind can see ahead to all outcomes and makes decisions accordingly. Divine Love coalesces the forces of the universe to work together in harmony and support every right idea—every “chosen one” of God! So when you are chosen, you have every reason to celebrate. You are in a very good place indeed!
Then the question comes, “What if you don’t feel chosen? What if you don’t feel special at all? What if it feels like God has totally forgotten you or sees no point in paying attention?” A lot of people feel this way.
But you know what? You are chosen!
God has chosen you to fulfill a significant spiritual purpose. You were created for a reason. You have a niche to fill that no one else can fill.
You have been chosen to live a spiritual life. You have been chosen to love your neighbor unselfishly, to live the Golden Rule, to be God’s image in action, to triumph over all evil, to heal the sick through prayer. You have been chosen to reflect God’s presence.
It’s not an earthly position like banking, plumbing, teaching, farming, or entertaining that God chooses us to do. Those are simply temporary means we currently see that give us opportunity to do God’s “chosen” work. The human manifestation often change as our understanding of God’s plan improves. The greater work, and God’s choice, is always centered on the spirituality we live and express in whatever position we presently occupy.
The difference between people who know they’ve been chosen and those who don’t, is the difference between people who act like lost mortals struggling to find a place in a material world, and people who see beyond mortality to eternal life in heaven.
Those who see all the way to heaven know they’ve been chosen to be there. They don’t get hung up on what happens on earth. They know it’s all temporary. With no time to idle, they keep productively occupied with pursuit of spiritual gain. They don’t expend their resources on efforts that end in vain. They have no patience for evil, and allow no tolerance for disease and suffering. They are divinely driven to conquer material mindedness, selfishness and worldliness. They have an intense spiritual purpose moving their thought upward from matter to Spirit.
You are a chosen one. You have been chosen to live a spiritual life, to be a spiritual healer and to do God’s work on earth. Do you see it? Have you accepted your calling?
When you do, be ready for a mighty power of grace to well up inside and settle a heavenly peace within.
The “chosen” are a very privileged group indeed. They are especially protected, supported and benefited by the power that chooses them. And you are one of the group.
To be continued…
Huh… I didn’t see that coming!
I was just happy you were chosen.
I didn’t think this discussion would come all the way around to me in the end.
Interesting.
Certainly food for thought today…
Very inspiring message. I will do some deep thinking about this today. I love these messages!
Thank you
Hi Evan,
I love so much about this! I totally agree that everyone is created for a reason, to fulfill a significant spiritual purpose and that each has a niche to fill. I’m getting a little hung up when you move from the spiritual to the human, though. Did God really choose us to live a mortal life in which there is evil that needs to be triumphed over and sickness that needs to be healed through prayer? Did he really choose us to be healers? Or is being a healer just a by-product of learning that we are all, in fact, wholly spiritual, good, and perfect, rather than material, sinful, and/or sickly? And I’m also wondering, if the “chosen” are a privileged group who are especially protected, supported, and benefited by the power that chooses them, does that mean some people are not a part of the group, have less protection and are less supported and benefited by omnipotence because omnipotence has not chosen them?
Thanks for your thoughts.
This Subject really has me goin’…. hmmmm, hmmmm,
hmmmm.
As Mrs. Eddy tells us, it is difficult to convey spiritual ideas via the human language(s). (Thus Jesus taught in parables!) I know you are right on, Evan, and do not question you. But I know I need to understand more (understatement!) about how the human experience fits in to our spiritual existence. Clearly it doesn’t, but we all know how real it seeeems! I believe practitioners heal quickly (or better!) because they know that human probs are unreal. The whole human state is unreal. Heaven is HERE, and those who glimpse this more clearly automatically “heal” the illusion that it isn’t!!
Oh my, lots to think about, huh folks.
You can see why I never sign my name!!!!!
:<))
To above,
I think many of your questions will be answered as the series finishes out. But briefly, God never chose us to live a mortal life. That’s a wrong view of life that Christ dispels. Also, no one is left out of being “chosen.” We’re all “chosen” to live spiritual life. That’s the only option! The faster an individual figures this out and lives true to their divine purpose, the faster their progress heavenward. And as spiritual sense takes over, the illusions of mortal mind become apparent and any pain and suffering of the human past vanishes as if it never happened.
Okay, thanks for the clarification. So I think you’re saying we’re all chosen to be healers in the sense that we’re all destined to see, sooner or later, beyond the mortal illusion. And, when we do, the pain and suffering of the human past will vanish as if it never happened because we will see that, in fact, it never did! Is that it? I guess I will look forward to gaining even more clarity “as the series finishes out” :). Thanks for sharing all these deep insights.
(FYI, I am the poster of the 3rd comment, not the same person as the one who made the 4th post, although I see we have similar questions!)