God has chosen you to be on His Team

It was not you who chose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain…” (John 15: 16). 

 Whenever I read this passage, I think of the delight a child experiences when chosen to play on a team and is sent out to help her/his team win games.  It’s like saying to the child: “I know that you will make us proud and will help put our name in the record books.”  Or think of a time when you received an acceptance letter to the college of your choice or to the job of your dreams and were welcomed as one who would do great things as part of that organization. 

In the case above, Jesus, the second person of the Blessed Trinity,  God, the all-knowing One, Almighty Goodness, has chosen you and me to be on God’s team.  God expects great things of us, that we will bear fruit that will last eternally.  We read in  1 Cor 13:13 that three things last forever—faith, hope and love—and the greatest of these is love.  Love extends into eternity. We need faith and hope here but not in heaven.  We need faith now, believing that God is with us. We need hope now, hoping as well as believing, that the graces we need to bear fruit that will last is at our doorstep for the asking!

Savor knowing that Jesus has chosen you to be on His team!