Through The Bible in a Year - March 17, 2026

“For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.” – 1 Samuel 1:27

“Mommy, I need you right now. Barbie’s clothes won’t fit.”

A mother is trying to fix dinner but her four-year-old won’t stop demanding attention.

“Mommy, I need you!” “Barbie will be late.”

“Late for what?”

“Everything. She’ll be late for everything if you don’t stop to help me.”

The words sink in and sting. The mother turns from the stove, wipes her hands, and picks up the child now crying over Barbie’s “lateness.”

The mother sings gently, “I see the moon and the moon sees me. God bless the moon and God bless me. God looked down from up above and He picked you out for me to love. He picked you out from all the rest because He knew I’d love you the very best.”

A simple lullaby with a profound truth: The Lord of Hosts, sovereign over heaven and earth, has worked through all time, all generations, all possibilities to grant particular children to particular parents for His particular and eternal purposes.

The children with special needs and special talents. The adored and the abandoned. The long-anticipated and the lovingly adopted. The easy to love and the hard to love. Those desperate for love and delightful to love. All are specially chosen from all eternity and from all geography, for our families, in the time and condition and circumstance that God knows is best for the eternal destiny of that child – and his or her parents.

You’re on a mission from God with this child—regardless of their abilities or inabilities, what God is teaching them, your neighbors, the world, and your own heart is according to his specific and eternal purpose.

Respond: Which child in your life needs to hear this truth today? Whether biological, adopted, fostered, mentored, or discipled—tell them: “God picked you out for me to love.”

Prayer: Lord, thank You for picking out [name the child/children] for me to love. Help me see them through Your eyes—specially chosen, eternally purposed, divinely placed in my life. Give me wisdom to love them the very best. In Jesus’ name, amen.