There’s a passage in the Bible that talks about a select group of God’s chosen. Here’s my telling: Jesus just finished speaking to a large group of people and he tells them the parable of the Sower’s seeds. Afterward, he comes and speaks to the apostles in plain language explaining the parable. Someone in the group asks Jesus why He doesn’t speak to the crowds in plain language and instead speaks to them in parable. Jesus explains that it is the very essence of that parable. He is the Sower and the crowd of people are His seeds. If He spoke in plain language as He did to the apostles, then He would be throwing all the seeds in one place. The crowd wasn’t ready to hear His words the way He speaks to the apostles, but if He speaks in parable, then maybe His messages will spread like the Sower’s seeds.
A part of this story is that there are people who can listen to the Word of the Son and understand it better than others. There is a group of chosen who can hear His message. However, for me, there’s a greater message. That being that Jesus’s message is for everyone. There’s no chosen group. There might be a group of apostles who can understand it in plain and simple language, but Jesus wanted everyone to hear it. He spoke to the poor, the ill, and the old. He would speak to anyone regardless of who they were. His message isn’t for a special chosen group, it is for everyone. I know this truth without a doubt because God doesn’t command for me to love just Christians or the moral, God commands that I love everyone, even those I struggle to love. I don’t love others because they are worthy of my love. I don’t love others because I like other people (there are very few humans I really like.) I love others because God enters my heart and changes it. He makes it possible through faith.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
