Be encouraged by this 30-minute teaching on how God’s acceptance shapes our identities and the way we live our faith by allowing us to be our authentic and genuine selves so we don’t have to compete with or compare ourselves to other women but we can be confident in who He called us to be and grow into our unique giftings and callings.
Acceptance is more than being admitted into a clique or a club. Acceptance is being specially chosen in love without pretense and having grace, honor, and abundant favor bestowed upon you by the One who chose you.
It is no coincidence that Paul chose to use the same Greek word “charitoo” to tell believers that we are “accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1:6), as the angel Gabriel used when he called Mary “highly favored” in Luke’s account of their exchange: “And having come in, the angel said to her, ‘Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!’ ” (Luke 1:26–28).
The word “charitoo” means to have grace, to be clothed with special honor, to make accepted and to be highly favored. When Paul said we are “accepted in the Beloved,” he was saying that in Christ we have been granted the same favor God showed Mary when He chose her in love to bring forth the Messiah.
Mary was no different than any other young Jewish woman. She said of herself, “The Lord has looked upon the lowly” (Luke 1:48). The Lord chose Mary not because she was better than anyone else, but out of the counsel and delight of His own will. That is the same reason He chose Ruth, and the same reason He chose you and me.
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