¹⁴ “For many are invited, but few are chosen.” (Matthew 22:14 CSB)

I was most often that kid that got chosen last. It is not that I had no skills for the game being played, but I was an ungainly child, as apt to fall over my own feet as anything else.

The funny thing is that I never really let it bother me. I guess I did not care all that much about when I was chosen, just that I got chosen. I never really focused on the process, just the outcome.

The Word is being spread daily and yet we see more and more people falling away from faith and religion. Many looking for alternatives.

It is true, many people have been church hurt. They have lived through the hypocrisy of those within the church and have ultimately turned from any form of religion.

But let me tell you something that make shock you. Those hypocrites in the church. They are you, and you are them. That might be hard to hear but the sinners you don’t go to church with are the same sinners that sit in the church. It’s just a different group of sinners.

Sadly, at the end of days, scripture tells us that there are many who sit in those pews to whom Christ will say, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”

Yes, many are invited but truly few are chosen. The outcome is more important than the process. We can look at those around us and judge, but is there value in that? No, because the ultimate goal here is a personal relationship with Christ. It is to be chosen by The Son of God as well as to choose to believe.