1 Peter 2:9 English Standard Version (ESV) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

It is not uncommon for us to ask if we are truly chosen. The concept that God knew us before the foundation of the world and chose us then to be His possession is difficult to grasp. Our lack of understanding in how God could do that leaves us with some measure of doubt.

How can we deal with this personal insecurity? We all have asked ourselves questions related to our salvation for various reasons. It is impossible to cover them all. So let us deal with the question itself?

Are we chosen? Rather than trying to deal with personal issues let us begin with why we are concerned with the question at all. At the core of the why is a desire to be chosen. How did we come about wanting to be saved in the first place? We come to Christ for different reason but at the core in the desire to be saved is something that is common to all of us. We were being called out of the darkness into the light.

In our infancy we might not have known who was doing the calling, or that we were being called. It matters not whether the call was a yearning to be loved or a dark hatred for the life we were living. He was touching us in ways that only God could know how we would respond. Even if we did not know what we were doing, God did.

Memory is a strange trait. The further away from any event the more doubt creeps in to ask what really happened. We have emotional attachments that change because we change. Are these changes because life is beating us up or because God is perfecting us?

A better question to ask ourselves might be; are our actions rooted in faith or fear?