A Message of Inspiration From the Author of Living Loved, August 17, 2025
Hey friends, I am absolutely enjoying digging deep in the life of David as I prepared the message for this mornings radio show!
And listen friends, it just hit me about David the Shepard Boy. It hit me that as Samuel was anointing David, the young Shepherd Boy, with oil to be King one day, that God selected David. He says that he looks at the heart of men, not the outward appearances. It didn’t hit me that God selected him but that in that moment when God selected him, He knew. The Father knew that many years later David would forsake going to war, he would lust after, and take, another mans wife into his bed and commit adultery and impregnate her. He knew that David would then have her husband killed and take her as his own wife. The Father already knew the many sins David would commit. He knew and yet……….
He still chose him.
And friends, He not only knows all the sins you have committed, He knows all the sin that lies before you and yet HE CHOOSES YOU!!
He CHOSE ME, even though He knew how messed up I would be. And that is such a reassuring promise. Oh we are so loved!! So incredibly, wholly and completely and without condition, loved!! Live loved friends!!
“Even BEFORE he made the world, God LOVED us and CHOSE us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided IN ADVANCE to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.”
Ephesians 1:4-5
About the author
Tracy Kelley is a follower of Jesus, mother, grandmother, author and speaker, living in Sulphur Springs, TX. She is the author of the book Living Loved, Learning to Live in the Fullness of Gods Love, where she shares encouragement from her daily journey and how God has shown His love to her through various trials. You can buy her book, find events, book her for your event, and follow her by going to her Facebook page, where you will always be greeted as friend! You can purchase her book at Good News Book Store in Sulphur Springs, TX; online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and most other major retailers.
