Just like the next girl, I love the bachelor. I mean LOVE it.
Somehow following 20 girls fall in love with the man of their dreams creates so much entertainment. The drama, the tears, the fights—I love it.
Pretty much, the show is just a bunch of women trying to self-satisfy their desires for a man in their life. The women fight for the bachelor’s attention in whatever way they can. They flirt, they gossip, they throw themselves onto the boy of their dreams. And at the end of the week if you fail to draw in the Bachelor’s attention, you don’t receive a rose. You are sent home in tears, wallowing in your sadness. No matter how hard you fought, the boy of your dreams just didn’t ‘love’ you.
So what if I was to tell you that you, yourself, receives a rose from God every day?
Unlike the bachelor, we do not have to throw ourselves onto God. We do not need to be pretty, we do not need to wear the fanciest dresses, and we do not need to spend the most money for God to love us.
God loves us no matter what we do because He made us just as He wanted us to be.
Each day God is calling out to us saying you are chosen.
1 Peter 2:9 writes,
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
Isn’t that incredible?
We are God’s greatest possession, and yet we did nothing to deserve it.
In God’s name there is no competition. There is no fighting for His rose, because He gives them to each one of us. Never will we be left wallowing in sadness because of God’s name. We can fall head over heels into God’s arm’s and never feel hurt, neglected, or turned away from unlike how the women on the Bachelor commonly do.
So next time you sit down to watch the Bachelor, next time you feel ugly, next time you doubt your presence, think about the rose God gives you each day.
Will you accept it?
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