Chosen to be Christ to Somebody

 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 2:9

Chosen.  We are all chosen to be somebody.  We are all chosen to be somebody to somebody else.  That somebody we ought to be is Christ.  I love the saying, "You may be the only Bible people read."  How true.  I like to think you may be the only Christ people know.  Therefore, who we are in Christ is reflected in what we do and in what we say.  If we are to be Christ's ambassadors, or ones who represent Him, then we are to love with the same life-changing love He gives to us.

The problem I face is that life sucks all the love out of me: deadlines, appointments, bills, emails, texts, phone calls, plans to make, plans to change, people to spend time with, meetings to schedule, laundry to fold, books to read, papers to file, toilets to scrub, doors to fix, holes to fill, dishes to wash, groceries to buy, food to cook, closets to organize, movies to watch, news to keep up with, church to attend, Bible study work to complete, teeth to brush, clothes to buy, clothes to give away, exercise needed, and sleep to be had at some point.  Life-changing love isn't going to happen until my life changes.  I have been easily entangled by all the life-sucking piranhas aforementioned.  I haven't allowed the life-changing and the life-giving love of Christ to fill me.

"Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today. Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt. Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name."
Deuteronomy 10:15-20

We are all chosen to love and to be loved by the one and only true God.  Therefore, let us not be stiff-necked any longer.  Let us not allow ourselves to be entitled to receive; but rather, let us give without expectation and without condition.  Let us not let life suck all the love out of us because if we spend quality time every day with the Lord of Love, then we will never be dry.  Hold fast to the life-changing, life-giving Source of love.  Then, others will know Christ lives in us and they will want to know more about what it means to be chosen.