Today’s Verse
“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.”
Ephesians 1:4-5
Chosen Before You Proved Anything
We spend so much of our lives trying to be chosen. Chosen for the team, chosen for the job, chosen by the person we hope will love us back. We audition, we perform, we present our best selves, hoping someone will pick us. And even when they do, there’s always the nagging fear: what if they see the real me and change their mind?
God’s choice works differently. He didn’t choose you after you auditioned. He didn’t pick you because you impressed Him or because you had potential He wanted to develop. He chose you before you did a single thing to earn it. Before you were born. Before you had a chance to prove yourself worthy. He looked at you, the real you, the messy you, the broken you, and said, “That one. I want that one.”
And here’s the part that undoes us: He didn’t just see you from a distance and choose you anyway. He knows you. Completely. Every hidden thought, every secret shame, every wound you’ve never told anyone about. He sees what you work so hard to hide, and instead of turning away, He moves closer. His knowledge of you doesn’t decrease His love, it’s the very foundation of it.
You don’t have to perform. You don’t have to hide the parts of yourself you’re afraid are too much or not enough. You don’t have to earn what’s already been given. You are chosen. You are seen. You are known. Not because you finally got it all together, but because God’s love doesn’t wait for you to be worthy, it makes you worthy.
Today, stop striving to be picked. You already have been. By the only One whose opinion actually matters.
Today’s Prayer
Lord, thank you that I am chosen, seen, and known by You, fully loved and fully accepted just as I am.
I didn’t do anything to earn it, You chose me. Not because I’m special but because Your love is, and that changes everything about how I see myself.
Teach me to live from the security of being chosen rather than striving to prove I’m worthy of being picked, to rest in Your selection instead of seeking validation elsewhere.
You see me, not just the version I present to the world but the real me, the hidden struggles, the secret fears, the unspoken dreams, and You don’t look away.
Help me believe that being fully seen doesn’t mean being rejected, that You see all of me and still choose me, still love me, still call me Yours.
Remind me that You know me completely, every thought, every wound, every joy, every failure, and that depth of knowledge doesn’t diminish Your affection but deepens it.
Give me freedom to stop hiding, to be authentic, to embrace the truth that I don’t have to perform or pretend because I’m already chosen, already seen, already known.
Let me walk today with the confidence that comes from being chosen by the Creator, seen by the One who matters most, and known by a God who loves me completely.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.