Deu 7:6-10 “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
The people of God should take great encouragement from these verses. All over the world we are seeing religions, namely Islam, that seem to dominate. Christianity seems to pale in comparison to Islam. There are areas of the world that are an extremely dense Muslim area of the world. The same, of course, is with Christianity in America, however weak the Christianity may be.
God has always had a chosen people/person. He looks down in favor on those whom He chooses. Numbers do not convince God that the religion of Islam and its growth is the superior religion to true Christianity. Why should numbers convince us? Many times we look at large churches and think “they must be doing something right.” Sorry, but Joel Osteen isn’t doing much of anything right. Except he does use an exceptional form of whitening for his teeth.
Be encouraged: We are God’s chosen people, treasured above those on the earth, not because we are anything but because God is everything, He redeemed us, and He is faithful to keep His covenant with us.
