What It Means To Be "Chosen"

Christ didn’t come to create a closed up and closed off "chosen people", he came that any might be chosen who are willing to choose; choose to take up their cross, to die to themselves, and to live in trust and obedience to God. He came to adopt us all, to save us all, to make us all his brothers and sisters. Whether they be the descendants of Ishmael or Isaac or neither of the two, every person on earth is called to be a child of God. And God’s children do not exist to simply celebrate their status as children or to bask in the glow of the coming reward, but are set apart as a peculiar people to bring good news to the poor and the prisoner, to share light with the lost and the lonely, to walk in a new way and to invite others to walk in it, to hear God’s word and put it into practice, to produce fruit in keeping with repentance. We celebrate God’s grace by sharing it, we celebrate His Kingdom by living in it, we celebrate being children of God by living as children of God. As God sent His Son, He is sending His children, He is calling us, as He did Abraham, to leave our old life behind us and to walk in the way we should go.