God's favorites!

Last Sunday in youth sunday school, we talked about whether or not God has favorites. I think the kids were looking for me to say that He does not. Well, I found that He does. Namely, David was one of God's favorites, referred to in scripture as a man after God's own heart. And the Israelites were God's favorites, His chosen people. So instead of having a nice political discussion about God not having favorites, we talked about how to be His favorite. The neat thing about God is that anyone can be a favorite! How? I looked at some traits of his favorites and found that they REALLY trusted God. Take Job, we all know the story about how everything was taken from him. Yet he proclaimed about his God "though He slay me, still I will trust Him." Now, that is trust!!! Again, David trusted God. In 2 Samuel 12, he fasted and prayed for the child that was dying as a result of his adultery with Bathsheba. After the child died, he arose, washed his face, worshipped God and got something to eat. His servants then wanted to know how it was that he was so desperate while the child was alive but is now eating after the child died. David said "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore shall I fast..." David trusted God and understood that judgment had been handed down as foretold to him in verse 14. He could not change God's mind so it was time to go on. I want this kind of trust in God. He knew he had sinned and that there were consequences to that sin. He knew God was just and he trusted in Him. I want God to say about me that I was after His heart!!!