Are you the favorite person of anybody? Take a second to let that question sink in. Then think of someone who might consider you a favorite person. Are you absolutely sure that you are indeed that someone’s favorite person?

I did give this question a serious thought after watching the video below. The first person to come to mind was my mother, but I have two other siblings and she has always maintained that she loves the three of us equally. Then I thought of my nephews and nieces – who might consider me as their favorite uncle – but they have other uncles!

In the end I realized that there is simply no way for me to be absolutely sure that any of my relatives, friends, coworkers and acquaintances see me as their favorite person. But I also realized another thing – there might be no way for me to be certain that people close to me would treat me as their favorite, yet it is beyond doubt that I am God’s favored one.

I’ll say it again. I am God’s favorite. Everything that I have – friends, family, ministry, joy, even problems, difficulties, challenges – are proofs that I am indeed God’s favorite. I could not think of another day in my life that I felt I lived so fully as the day I realized that I am spending the rest of eternity with a God who chooses me as his favorite person.

All of us are God’s favorite. I fully agree with St. Augustine when he said “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” To God, all of us are special. To God, no one is more important than us. We are precious and honored in God’s sight. All of us have a favored place in God’s heart.

We are God’s favorite people. The Father himself said “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness” (Jer 31:3). And Jesus also declared “As the Father has loved Me so have I loved you” (Jn 15:9).

A person who knows that he or she is God’s favorite keeps for life a thankful, loving heart.