How it is that God chooses one over another to achieve His purposes? The answer is that despite the physical and social stature of the one who would appear to be the obvious choice, He sees more in the one less obvious, and chooses that one instead. Even the prophet Samuel thought Eliab would make an ideal king, but God saw in David qualities that his big brother lacked. (1 Samuel 16:7 & 1 Samuel 17) Here are some pointers:
The one God chooses accepts challenges while surveying the scene.
The one God refuses is intimidated by repeated daily challenges and so does nothing.
The one God chooses demonstrates a personal faith based on past performance.
The one God refuses exhibits the mental and physical paralysis in the fearful majority.
The one God chooses secures a promise that risk will be rewarded, and acts accordingly.
The one God refuses thinks that success is too risky, and so remains inactive.
The one God chooses responds to criticism with logic based on a developing sense of destiny.
The one God refuses questions motives, suggests irresponsibility, and criticizes positive propositions.
The one God chooses crosses the divide between fear and faith and risks all for victory and its rewards.
The one God refuses forsakes the opportunity to be a major player, and settles for being a spectator.
The one God chooses becomes one of history’s greatest and best-known heroes: a spiritual, stone-slinging, giant killing teenager.
The one God refuses is remembered only for having been the hero’s big brother.
The one God chooses grows to become an anointed composer of numerous victory songs, and as a praising, singing, dancing, worshipping priest-king.
The one God refuses accomplishes nothing memorable in life.
“Two men looked through prison bars; one saw mud, the other stars.” God speaks to our potential, and our response to the opportunity He presents determines our destiny. So, take on the smaller challenges of life, because in so doing you will prepare yourself to be The One God Chooses, rather than the one He refuses!