God's Favorite

God’s Favorite

Did you know that God has a favorite? When I say favorite, I mean it by the sense that the dictionary defines favorite as. Favorite-a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference. In all of time, in all recorded history there is one person that he loves above all others. I’m sure your thinking, well of course he does, it’s Jesus! But Jesus is a part of God therefore he cannot be his own favorite. I know what I’m about to say is going to stretch some people’s minds. But allow me to explain further before you completely ignore me or write me off as a fool.

When God thinks of this person he can’t help but get a smile on his face. When God thinks of his favorite person in all of creation, his heart skips a beat like someone who’s spotted his loved one in a crowded room. When God thinks of the one person in all of creation that he loves above all others, words can’t begin to describe the passion that boils up inside of him. Who is this person? Why it’s me of course. Yes me, with all of my faults. I couldn’t believe it either when I learned it. You would think that his favorite would be someone so grand and wonderful. An obvious choice, God chose me though. Even though I walk a bit funny, even though I’m deaf in one ear, and even though I’m more that a tad overweight. I am in all of creation, his favorite.

But and this is what makes God so incredible, it is also each and every one of you. At any moment, at any point in time through the history of man, whenever you are on his mind, you are the most important in all of his creation. A lot of words have been used to describe his love, awesome is one of them. But as a friend of mine said recently, we use that word way too much to describe things that are not truly awesome. We see a great athletic play, or hear a tremendous song, read a brilliant book, and we say that was awesome. But the dictionary defines awesome as inspiring awe. If awesome is something that inspires awe, then what is awe itself? Awe is an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful. When we say that God’s love is awesome what we are really and truly saying is that his love is so amazing that when we think about it inspires in us an overwhelming feeling of reverence and admiration.

This is where realizing that you indeed, yes you, are God’s favorite can become hard to understand and comprehend. If I had told you that any number of characters from the Bible were God’s favorite, or that someone like Billy Graham, Mother Teresa, or any other famous evangelist or preacher was the favorite one. You may disagree with my logic, or argue with me that God plays no favorites. But those at least we could rationalize in our minds, these are all famous or talented, or more spiritual than most of us believe we could ever be. When however I tell you that I am God’s favorite, a boy born with CP, raised in a tiny community named Tacy. When I tell you I am God’s favorite it becomes an act of pride, you can say I’m making more of myself than I truly am worth. Telling you then that YOU are God’s favorite, you who know all your flaws, all your hidden and not so hidden sins, you who know everything about yourself. I tell you that YOU are God’s favorite, and it becomes difficult to believe about oneself. But I want everyone to say out loud I AM GOD’S FAVORITE!

We are more special in God’s eyes than most of us ever realize. The passion that God has for us is most clearly written about in a book not heavily preached out of, the Song of Songs or Song of Solomon. A woman, and the King that she loves are the two principles in the book, as they go back and forth telling each other how much they are in love. While the book tells us how the love between a man and his wife should be, it also gives us a glimpse into how much God loves us. For we are his bride, his choice in SOS 6: 8,9
Even among sixty queens
and eighty concubines
and countless young women,
9 I would still choose my dove, my perfect one—

The King says I may have the choice of all the woman in I want, but I would choose you above all others. I think for some reason we tend to shy away from thinking of God pursuing in the romantic sense. We read the Song of Solomon and think it sounds like a lovestruck teenager writing to his first crush. A lovestruck teenager God doesn’t seem to powerful to us, or maybe it’s just the overt sexual overtones. So we pass over the book a lot of times and don’t think much about what it means to our faith. God is PASSIONATE about you and I, in ways greater than we can comprehend. The love between a man and wife is just a fraction of the love that God has for us.

And I think that is part of the reason God as the lover has become, less preached on in Western society. For the woman who had a husband leave her, it’s hard to think of God as someone passionately in love with her. For the husband who’s wife had an affair, it’s hard to worship the God who chooses only him. So we worship the God that we can understand. We can understand the God who takes us in as his children, like in Romans 8. Because so many of us are broken and wounded like children who have been adopted are. We can worship the God who is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords as revealed in Revelations. But, a God who pursues us like a man after his first love, the God who has loved us with an intense passion and devotion since before we were created. In a country with a divorce rate of over 50% it’s easier for the churches to just avoid.

The individual Christian however cannot lose it’s identity as the Bride of Christ. We each individually are the Bride of Christ, just as all the body of Christ collectively is the Bride. Each of us loved individually, special and unique, a divine FAVORITE of the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last. From here on out wake up each day and say out loud, I am God’s Favorite. But only if you truly believe, only if your ready to live your life as if you truly are God’s Favorite. Now once again shout it from the top of your lungs. I AM GOD’S FAVORITE!!!!!!!!