Saturday, 29 November 2025

A child of favor

“We love because he loved us first” – I John 4:19 (NIV)

Favor is something which would bring smile to any of us. When Joseph presented his two children, Manasseh and Ephraim, to Jacob for a blessing, their grandfather placed his right hand on the younger brother, Ephraim, before his elder brother. Joseph resisted and tried to influence his father against. “But his father refused and said, “I know my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations” (Gen 48:19).

Actually Jacob he himself had been a favored child over his older brother. Earlier when his father, Isaac, was about to pass on, he called on his elder son, Esau, to be blessed of him (Gen 27:7). But his mother, Rebekah, tricked their father and had the younger son be blessed before. When Esau found out he cried out in protest to Isaac but without much success. “I have made him lord over you, and I have sustained him with grain and wine” (Gen 27:37).

As Believers we too have been chosen and favored not because there was anything deserving but that God loved us first. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet of nation” (Jeremiah 1:5).

Favor is unmerited grace. God favors us not because there is any good in us. “For it is by grace you have been saved through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is a gift of God – not by works, so that one can boast” (Ephesians 2: 8-9). God favors us because He chose us to be His children. Today may you confidently walk out in the knowledge you are a favoured child of God!

Prayer for today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, I thank you that you have chosen and blessed me as a child of favour, and today I pray to walk out with that favour upon my life to experience your full blessings, this I pray in Jesus’s name!