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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 3: Pick Me


ONCE UPON A TIME

we will see JESUS face to face.

I picture myself standing in a huge crowd with

everyone raising their hands screaming with excitement,

"PICK ME, PICK ME"

But I am hidden,

as no one sees me.

People have trampled over me to get in the front of the line.

I have no voice, as I stand with slumped shoulders.

And then it happens in the midst of everyone screaming

"PICK ME JESUS"!

All those who now are faced with their eternal destiny.

And then HE

lifts HIS scared hands & points HIS finger.

“You mean me JESUS”

as everyone thinks it is them.

And HE says ~

I PICK YOU.

I slowly look up & start walking forward.

The crowd is silent as they are thinking~

"YOU picked HER. Don’t you now what she has done?"

But I keep walking forward

thinking

It was all worth it.

The times I was shunned because

I BELIEVED.

The times that I had to say no, when I so wanted to say yes.

The times when I had to face every icky thing that I have done, that covered me in shame.

The times when "it is not fair" was all that I experienced.

The times that I had to say I am sorry to those who I have hurt.

Those times that I sat alone with GOD because I had no where else to go.

It was worth it

"for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14)

To stand before JESUS and be PICKED.

To be chosen to come into HIS kingdom.

It is me that HE sees

because I am covered IN HIM.

It is me who HE has always seen.

The me who still

has moments when I feel so ashamed to look up into HIS face

to RECEIVE all

who HE says I am

Because of those

ONCE UPON A TIME MOMENTS

when

I still do what I want to do, even though

HE SAID~

“Flee from temptation" (2 Timothy 2:22).

When I say what I feel I want to say, even though

HE SAID~

“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out..." (Ephesians 4:29).

When I run away in fear even though

HE SAID~

“Don’t be afraid; just believe” (Mark 5:36)

When I feel so ashamed, even though

HE SAID~

“If we confess our sins, HE is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins

and purify us from all unrighteousness” (I John 1:9).

So I will stand one day & you will stand one day

IN HIS PRESENCE

And will see JESUS standing

With HIS HANDS opened wide

TO RECEIVE

The guilty.

The shamed.

The bitter.

The fearful.

The _________,

And

not because of the good we did

&

not because of the better than he or she we did,

but because

ONCE UPON A TIME

I heard the TRUTH & you heard the TRUTH~

"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears MY word and believes HIM who sent ME

has eternal life. HE does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life" (John 5:24)

and

BELIEVED & RECEIVED it.

Or maybe

you have never heard the TRUTH

or have heard it and don't

BELIEVE it.

JESUS IS YOUR STORY CHANGER!

But

either way,

ONCE UPON A TIME

we will all stand before

GOD

and

when HE looks into your eyes

will

HE SEE JESUS

the one who

has

PICKED YOU

because

you

PICKED HIM?

Therefore,

let's

"Fix our eyes on JESUS the author and finisher of our faith..."

(Hebrews 12:2)

Watch

"THE GOOD-O-METER"~


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